Knowledge that Transforms

IN I844 the manager of the Paris-Orleans Railway, Francois Bartholony, gave admirable expression to the principles that should animate directors of such undertakings: "To all those who serve our company and contribute to its prosperity, it behooves us to give an interest in that prosperity; that is to say, we should stimulate their zeal, reward their exertions, raise them in their own esteem and in that of the public in a word, attract to us capacity. By every such measure we shall reap direct and indirect advantage. Moreover, the men who spend their lives in our service ought never to find themselves within sight of destitution. If the retired officials of a great administration are allowed to come down too low in the social scale, its dignity is bound to suffer."