This is one of the first things the Look-Up Club is for, to get people to be inspired by a hundred thousand men put together, in the same way that they are by a hundred thousand dollars put together. * * * * * I went out last night and walked up the Great White Way and looked at the little flock of hotels that are standing to-day on the site of my faith in these hundred thousand men--the site of the new hotel--the little sleeping shelf in the roar of New York for the hundred thousand men to have on Broadway. I stood and looked at the five or six hotels now standing there waiting to be torn down for us, and ---- told me that the seventeen parcels of land in the block that he had labored on forty-seven people to get them to make up their minds to put their lots together, were worth only a million and a half of dollars, either to them or to anybody else, while they were making up their minds to let their lots be put together. And now that he had got their minds made up for them and had got all these foolish, distracted seventeen parcels of land together into one, the land instead of being worth one million and a half dollars, was appraised by ---- the other day as worth four and a half million dollars. The same is true of the hundred thousand men of practical imagination scattered in five thousand cities, twiddling on the fate of a nation alone. The same thing is going to happen to the value of the men that has happened to the separate lumps of sand and clay they called real estate in New York. What can I manage to accomplish alone in trying to get to Chicago to-morrow morning? All I could do alone would be to walk. As it is, I stand in line a minute at a window in the Grand Central Station, make a little arrangement with several hundred thousand men and with a slip of paper I move to Chicago while I go to sleep. This power for each man of a hundred thousand men is what I am offering in this little book to the nine hundred and ninety thousand others. What will we do, what ideas will we carry out? Get one hundred thousand picked men together and what can they not do, what ideas can they not carry out? What is hard, what is priceless, is getting the men and getting the men together. Everybody who has ever done anything knows this. What we are doing is not to get values together, but the men who keep creating the values. The men who have created already the values of five thousand cities, shall now create values for a nation. I am not writing to people--to the hundred thousand men who are going to be nominated to the Look-Up Club--to ask them whether they think this idea of mine--of having the first hundred thousand men of vision of this country in a Club, is going through or not. I am writing them and asking them if--if it is going through--they want to belong to it.