. The Saturday evening post. and aspirationsof his countrymen and adjusting with in-creasing nicety his own conceptions to thegeneral tendencies of the age. To set forththe various stages in this process and todescribe the central facts in his life storywhich reveal his feelings for the course ofhuman advancement and his concrete rela-tions toward his country and the world isthe task of the biographer. That such aleader and kneader of men, who hasbecome a powerful agency in his coun-try and his epoch, should occasionallyfail to keep the balance, even between im-pulse and reason, promise and ac
. The Saturday evening post. and aspirationsof his countrymen and adjusting with in-creasing nicety his own conceptions to thegeneral tendencies of the age. To set forththe various stages in this process and todescribe the central facts in his life storywhich reveal his feelings for the course ofhuman advancement and his concrete rela-tions toward his country and the world isthe task of the biographer. That such aleader and kneader of men, who hasbecome a powerful agency in his coun-try and his epoch, should occasionallyfail to keep the balance, even between im-pulse and reason, promise and achieve-ment, is natural and inevitable. Moreoverthe defects of unusual strength invariablytranscend those of cautious mediocrity. Inany case it is idle to dwell on shortcomingsand to disparage positive achievements be-cause the social faith of the man to whosecredit they stand did not always removemountains. The reader, if in want of morallabels, can devise them to suit himself. 102 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST November 20,1920. FaitK MEMORY sometimes swings back to days whenthe automobile was nothing but another crazyidea. When the few who took it seriously wereobjects of the misplaced sympathy of friends, and ofunfriendly comment by the general public. When thelegal rate of speed in many big cities was not to exceedseven miles an hour. When the man whose horseran away at the sight of a horseless carriage alwayshad the jury with him. Those early days mean something to us now becauseto believe in the future of the automobile meant a greatdeal then. To point a business in a new direction,seaward without a compass, took something morethan courage and resource. It took the samevision, the same purpose, that were actuating thosewho were spending their days in the shop andtheir nights at the drawing board, producing thevery beginnings of a new kind of transportation. Ittook faith! It took red-blooded, he-man faith! During the last score of years the automobileindustry has made a place f
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