put one hundred thousand picked men--or men of exceptional power
together in a row in New York--and why is it everybody is apt to feel at
first a little vague and troubled about them, stands off around the
corner and wonders what can be done with one hundred thousand immortal
human beings?

I wish people would have as much imagination about what could be done
with one hundred thousand fellow human beings picked out and got together
from the men of this nation, as they would have about one hundred
thousand silver dollars.

This is one of the first things the Look-Up Club is for, to get people to
be inspired by a hundred thousand men put together, in the same way that
they are by a hundred thousand dollars put together.

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I went out last night and walked up the Great White Way and looked at the
little flock of hotels that are standing to-day on the site of my faith
in these hundred thousand men--the site of the new hotel--the little
sleeping shelf in the roar of New York for the hundred thousand men to
have on Broadway.

I stood and looked at the five or six hotels now standing there waiting
to be torn down for us, and ---- told me that the seventeen parcels of
land in the block that he had labored on forty-seven people to get them
to make up their minds to put their lots together, were worth only a
million and a half of dollars, either to them or to anybody else, while
they were making up their minds to let their lots be put together. And
now that he had got their minds made up for them and had got all these
foolish, distracted seventeen parcels of land together into one, the land
instead of being worth one million and a half dollars, was appraised by
---- the other day as worth four and a half million dollars.

The same is true of the hundred thousand men of practical imagination
scattered in five thousand cities, twiddling on the fate of a nation
alone.

The same thing is going to happen to the value of the men that has
happened to the separate lumps of sand and clay they called real estate
in New York.

What can I manage to accomplish alone in trying to get to Chicago
to-morrow morning?

All I could do alone would be to walk.

As it is, I stand in line a minute at a window in the Grand Central
Station, make a little arrangement with several hundred thousand men and
with a slip of paper I move to Chicago while I go to sleep.

This power for each man of a