Charles Edward Merriam Quote

We now know how to produce, how to fight, how to administer social affairs, public or private, on a massive scale; and no modern group is unmindful of the technical tools available for this purpose. Masses of men and women-millions of them-now know more about organization, its meaning and apparatus, than ever before in human history. Its cult is no longer secret or magic. What now appears is a reasonable expectancy by those concerned that under such and such conditions such and such an outcome will follow, in an organizational pattern, of which they are parts, and in which they share responsibility.


167-8 ; as cited in Albert Lepawsky (1949), Administration, p. 220-1 - Systematic Politics, 1943


We now know how to produce, how to fight, how to administer social affairs, public or private, on a massive scale; and no modern group is unmindful...

We now know how to produce, how to fight, how to administer social affairs, public or private, on a massive scale; and no modern group is unmindful...

We now know how to produce, how to fight, how to administer social affairs, public or private, on a massive scale; and no modern group is unmindful...

We now know how to produce, how to fight, how to administer social affairs, public or private, on a massive scale; and no modern group is unmindful...