808 THE PRINCIPLES OF PERSONAL INTEGRITY
vative. Both types are essential to the success of a commercial enter-
prise, but either will prove too much of a burden for any business,
without the modifying influence of the other.
It is generally conceded that James J. Hill was the most efficient
railroad builder that America ever produced, but it is equally well
known that he was not a civil engineer or a bridge builder or a loco-
motive engineer or a mechanical engineer or a chemist, although these
highly specialized talents are all essential in the building of railroads.
Mr. Hill understood the principles of organized ifJort and Cooperation.
Therefore, he surrounded himself with men who possessed all the
necessary ability which he lacked.
Analyze power, no matter where or in what form it may be found,
and you will find organization and Cooperation as the chief factors
behind it. You will find these two principles in evidence in the lowest
form of vegetation no less than in the highest form of animal, which
is man.Off the coast of Norway is the most famous and irresistible mael-
strom in the world. This great whirlpool of ceaseless motion has never
been known to give up any victim who was caught in its circling embrace
of foaming water.
No less sure of destruction are those unfortunate souls who are
caught in the great maelstrom of life toward which all who do not
understand the principle of organized} cooperative ifJort are traveling. We
are living in a world in which the law of the survival of the fittest is
everywhere in evidence. Those who are "fit" are those who have power,
and power is organized ifJort.
Unfortunate is the person who, either through ignorance or
because of egotism, imagines that they can sail this sea of life on
independence. Such a person will discover that there are maelstroms
more dangerous than any mere whirlpool of unfriendly waters. All
natural laws and all of Nature's plans are based upon harmonious