[ Public administration is merely] a special case of the larger category, administration, a process which is common to all organized human effort and which is highly developed in modern corporate business, in the church, in the Red Cross, in education, and in international bodies, public and private.

p. 3-4 (1939 edition); as cited in: Albert Lepawsky (1949), Administration, p. 8 - Introduction to the Study of Public Administration, 1926