# Our business civilization

Author: Adams, James Truslow, 1878-1949

Genre: Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76007

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Our+business+civilization+Adams&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

As one grows older and, let us hope, wiser, one becomes more and more shy of easy generalizations and classifications. As one moves through one’s world, the old generalized types, for example, of fiction and youth, standing for an “artist,” a Frenchman, or an Englishman, break into the many and varying individual artists or Frenchmen or Englishmen of one’s acquaintance, much as a ray of white light is broken into a rainbow of colors through a prism. But age and experience would be but poor substitutes for youth and freshness if they resulted only in bringing chaos to our minds, a substitution of multitudinous individuals for species and genus. If the old crude stock-in-trade types compact...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER XII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/our-business-civilization-76007/chapters/13/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/our-business-civilization-76007/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/our-business-civilization-76007/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/our-business-civilization-76007/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/our-business-civilization-76007/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/our-business-civilization-76007/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/our-business-civilization-76007/chapters/14/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/our-business-civilization-76007/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/our-business-civilization-76007/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/our-business-civilization-76007/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/our-business-civilization-76007/chapters/12/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/our-business-civilization-76007/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/our-business-civilization-76007/chapters/9/index.md)
- [did. Their happiest fate was to marry the town dentist or doctor, the](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/our-business-civilization-76007/chapters/8/index.md)