It is curious how many men who do well outside the House of Commons fail to make good inside." Curious indeed! But more curious still, we may surely say, that the House of Commons should continue, in the light of this knowledge, to enjoy so good an opinion of itself.
I suppose that nobody will now dispute that Lord Leverhulme is easily the foremost industrialist, not merely in the British Isles, but in the world.

I can think of no one who approaches him in the creative faculty.
Not even America, the country of big men and big businesses, has produced a man of this truly colossal stature.

Mr.Rockefeller is a name for a committee.

Mr.Carnegie was pushed to fortune by his more resolute henchmen.

But Lord Leverhulme, as is very well known in America, has been the sole architect of his tremendous fortunes, and in all his numerous undertakings exercises the power of an unquestioned autocrat.
Mr.Lloyd George once remarked to me that the trouble with Lord Leverhulme is that he cannot work with other men.