ted on first.

I have never been able to see why it is so generally supposed that people
who have so little spiritual power that they cannot even summon up enough
spirit not to be ugly, should be spoken of as spirited.

I would define spirited labor as labor which uses its imagination, labor
which thinks and tries to understand how to get what it wants instead of
merely indulging in wild destructive self-expression and worship of its
own emotion about what it does not want.

Spirited labor is inventive and constructive toward those with whom it
disagrees and wants to come to terms.

Revolutionaries and reactionaries are tired and automatic, tumtytumming
people--who do not want to think.

I am not saying that spiritually tired people are to blame for being
tired. I am pointing out a fact to be acted on.

Tired people always want the same thing. They want a thing to stay as it
is--or they want it to stay just as it is--upside down. The same
inefficiency, fear and weakness, meanness--merely another set of people
running the inefficiency and trying to make fear, weakness, meanness
work.

This is where the Put-Through Clan of the Air Line League comes in. The
Put-Through Clan will throw the local and national influence of twenty
million consumers on to the side of spirited or team-work capital and
labor, and will discourage, make ridiculous and impossible, the scared
fighting capital and the scared fighting labor with which we are now
being troubled.

The real line of demarcation in modern industry is not between capital
and labor, but between spirited capital and labor that want to work,
create and construct, on the one hand, and unspirited capital and labor,
working as little and thinking as little as they can, on the other.

The majority of revolutionaries are people who without taking any trouble
to study or understand anything, or to change anything, just turn it
thoughtlessly upside down--substitute their inefficiency for the other
man's.

Extreme revolutionaries generally talk about freedom, but until they can
get us to believe they are going to allow freedom to others, the world is
not going to let them--of all people, have any.

The bottom fact about revolutionary labor like revolutionary capital is
that it is tired. Revolutionary labor is not spirited. It is as
soggy-minded, thoughtless and automatic to be a revolutionist to-day as
it is to be a Louis XVI.

It takes originality to construct and to ch