The response of France to scientific management / by Charles de Freminville, trans. by Eleanor Bushnell Cooke

              The mentality of men varies according to country and is all the more difficult to define as each one is made up of contradictions. It is generally admitted that the Frenchman is little concerned about the exclusive ownership of what he has created and that he has frequently neglected to exploit his finest inventions, contenting himself with having labored for humanity. He is, however, possessed with a fierce individualism in anything that concerns his personal liberty.

It might be said that he never alienates himself from himself but waits until this constraint is put upon him from without. It is rarely that he lends himself to long collaboration.

The American, who seems to us to place much more emphasis on keeping in his own hands what he considers to be his own property; Whose motto is "Mind your own business", knows, however, how to co-operate with others, how to organize a partnership, and he is willing to make sacrifices to that end.

To a Frenchman, the work of Frederick Taylor is indeed a development of American genius, characterized by an elevated feeling for the individual. Here we find again the effort of the man accustomed to depending on himself alone, especially on his own energy and perseverance, constantly taking the most minute inventory of his personal resources - the least as well as the greatest - and improving them in order with the co-operation of his associates, to exploit them.

Frederick Taylor teaches his countrymen how to make tremendous progress in the path which is natural to them, by pointing out to them how much trained habits increase the