"Know them personally, I mean?"
"I do not." Selwyn's tone was irritable. "My business dealings with
them have not inspired desire for a closer acquaintance. To get as
much money as possible from the men who employ them and give in
return as little work as they can, is the creed of most of them. You
can do nothing with people like that. I know them better than you
will ever know them."
"As a corporation attorney, yes. As a division of the human race, as
working people, you know them. As beings much more like yourself
than you imagine, you don't."
Selwyn again stopped. "You'd hardly expect me to find them
congenial--the beings you refer to."
"I would not." I laughed. "They are generations removed from you in
education and culture, in many of the things essential to you, but
some of them see more clearly than you. Both need to understand you
owe each other something. And how are you going to find out what it
is, see from each other's point of view, unless you know each other
better? Unless--"
"For the love of Heaven, get rid of such nonsense! That particular
kind of sentiment has gone to seed.
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