* * * * In My Philosophy of Industry (Harrap,
3s. 6d.) Mr. Henry Ford touches on many subjects—matter and spirit, re- incarnation, " machinery, the new Messiah," success, progreis, and the gold standard- amongst others. Everything he writes bears the impresS of his original mind, but there is less sparkle here than in his two previous and larger works—Ford -Ideals and To-day and To-morrow. To succeed - in making motor- cars is not to be a philosopher, but Mr. Ford is undoubtedly a thinker as well as a manufacturer. The apparent, almost disarming simplicity of his ideas is no criterion of their depth. For- instance : " Nobody can think straight who does not work," he. writes, " for idleness warps the mind." That is an obvious and ancient truth, but Mr. Ford supplements it with the -idea that "thinking which does not connect with constructive action becomes a disease '-' and " the practised hand gives balance to the brain." We could multiply such aphorisms, but the flavour of the book is too good to Spoil by quotation.
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