Excerpt from Successful Living in This Machine Age He comes as near to being the philosopher of our machine economy as we have yet produced. More than any other American, and before any other American, he foresaw and formulated the social significance of mass production and mass distribution, if and when these processes are subjected to statesmanlike direction. We need his sanity and his seer ship respecting the machine economy just now, for, with an undue continuance of the world-wide depression, men will be powerfully tempted to rebel against the machine economy, as if it were to blame for their troubles, whereas their trou bles have come upon them, not because the machine economy has been developed, but because the machine economy has not been fully met by a new business statesmanship that sees it for the instrument Of economic stabilization and social enrichment that it is. Men are everywhere blaming the ma chine order for sins that lie rather at the door Of the economic order. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.