It may be taken as signalizing the new ideals that have gained the upper hand in American industry.

We began this review of American business with Cornelius Vanderbilt as the typical figure.

It is a happy augury that it closes with Henry Ford in the foreground.

Vanderbilt, valuable as were many of his achievements, represented that spirit of egotism that was rampant for the larger part of the fifty years following the war.

He was always seeking his own advantage, and he never regarded the public interest as anything worth a moment's consideration.