Instead of declaring, as most Americans do, that a man may, if he can, do good work, but that he _must_ create a following, we should declare that a man may, if he can, obtain a following, but that he _must_ do good work.

When he has done good work, he may not have done all that is required of him; but if he fails to do good work, nothing else counts.

The individual democrat who has had the chance and who has failed in that essential respect is an individual sham, no matter how much of a shadow his figure casts upon the social landscape.
The good work which for his own benefit the individual is required to do, means primarily technically competent work.

The man who has thoroughly mastered the knowledge and the craft essential to his own special occupation is by way of being the well-forged and well-tempered instrument.

Little by little there have been developed in relation to all the liberal arts and occupations certain tested and approved technical methods.