Excerpt from Ideals of America: Analyses of the Guiding Motives of Contemporary American Life by Leaders in Various Fields of Thought and Action Dean Swanson of the Northwestern University School of Commerce took up the narrative from the standpoint of domestic business. He traced the intermingling of antagonistic motives in the commercial world with the gradual obsolescence of the caveat-emptor standard in favor of the ideal of social responsibility. Thus he outlined the obverse side of the human situation handled by Mr. Frey. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.