that there may be habits of thinking and feeling as well as habits
of doing and making things?"

"Certainly."

"And do you recognize a difference between bad habits and good
habits?"

"Of course."

"And you agree that this difference exists both in mental and
in physical affairs? For example, you would call the foreman of a
machine-shop who directed his work in accordance with the natural
laws of his material and of his steam or electric power a man of
good habits, would you not?"

"Undoubtedly."

"And you would not deny him this name, but would rather emphasize
it, if in addition he had the habit of paying regard to the moral
and social laws which condition the welfare and efficiency of his
workmen; for example, self-control, cheerfulness, honesty, fair
play, honor, human kindness, and so on. If he taught these things,
not only by word but by deed, you would call him an excellent
foreman, would you not?"

"Without a question. That machine-shop would be a great success,
a model."

"But suppose your foreman had none of these good mental and moral