This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 Excerpt: ...his ability to utilize his opportunities to profit at the expense of others; and the subordinate in proportion to his disposition to obey orders and keep his own views to himself. What I have stated will suffice to show that the conception of practicality may be viewed from two different standpoints, the one being ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 Excerpt: ...his ability to utilize his opportunities to profit at the expense of others; and the subordinate in proportion to his disposition to obey orders and keep his own views to himself. What I have stated will suffice to show that the conception of practicality may be viewed from two different standpoints, the one being personal and the other impersonal; personal practicality being represented by the idea of being successful in acquiring wealth or rank, irrespective of the methods employed to reach the goal, and impersonal practicality by the idea of rendering efficient service, irrespective of the conception of reward or punishment. The question then is whether the appellation of practical shall be given to the individual who succeeds in acquiring wealth or rank without performing any service that will accrue to the benefit of society, or to the one who accomplishes things that do accrue to the benefit of humanity without a thought as to the quid pro quo. As a result of tradition we have acquired the habit of classifying those who center their thoughts in self-advancement as practical and those who center them in the performance of their duty or on social advancement as idealists or theorists. But are not the thoughtful writers, the inventors, and the reformers more practical members of society than those who win rank and fortune by taking advantage of their fellow men? If a great inventor should never receive any profits from his inventions, would this justify us in declaring that his inventions were not practical? That I am not the first to recognize that the term has opposite meanings is proved by the manner in which the dictionaries try to define it. While, for example, the Standard, definition 2, informs us that practical means " unscrupulous; as a pra...
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