"It is after you have mustered your industrial army into service," I said, "that I should expect the chief difficulty to arise, for there its analogy with a military army must cease.

Soldiers have all the same thing, and a very simple thing, to do, namely, to practice the manual of arms, to march and stand guard.

But the industrial army must learn and follow two or three hundred diverse trades and avocations.

What administrative talent can be equal to determining wisely what trade or business every individual in a great nation shall pursue ?" "The administration has nothing to do with determining that point." "Who does determine it, then ?" I asked.
"Every man for himself in accordance with his natural aptitude, the utmost pains being taken to enable him to find out what his natural aptitude really is.

The principle on which our industrial army is organized is that a man's natural endowments, mental and physical, determine what he can work at most profitably to the nation and most satisfactorily to himself.