Very few men can speak with authority--even if they would, as to what the other ninety-nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine men will possibly do or not do with my idea in this book. But any man can speak with authority and speak immediately when he gets to the end of it, as to how he feels himself, whether he wants or likes the idea, and wants to count one to bring the idea to pass. I speak up for myself in this book. Anybody can see it. If every man will confine himself in the same way, and will stake off himself and attend to himself at the end of this book and say what he wants--we will all get what we want. The proposition looks rather big, mathematically, but looked at humanly, it is a simple straight human-nature question. All I really ask of each man who is nominated is, "If the first hundred thousand men who have imagination in business are being selected and brought together out of all the other business men in America, do you want to be one of them? Who are the ten, twenty or fifty men of practical vision in business--especially young men, you think ought not to be left out?" It is all an illusion about numbers and sizes of things. The way to be national is to be personal, for each man to take sides with the best in himself. Suddenly across a nation we look in a hundred thousand faces. Sec. 2. _Why the Look-Up Club Looks Up._ The Constitution does not provide for an Imagination Department for the United States Government. It has judicial, executive and legislative departments, but a department made up of men of vision to create, conceive and reconceive, go deeper and see further than law and restraints can go, does not exist in our Government. We have a Judicial Department to decide on whether what is born has a right to live--a Legislative Department to pass rules under on how it shall be obliged to live--and an Executive Department to make it mind--but the department to create and to conceive for the people is lacking. Government at best is practically a dear uncle or dear maiden-aunt institution. Government as a physical expression is without functions of reproduction. Government--contrary to the theory of the Germans--from the point of view of sheer power in projecting and determining the nature and well-being of men--the fate of men and the world--is superficial, is a staid, standardized, unoriginal affair--devoted to ready-made ideas like the Red Cross during the war. This is what is the matter with a Government's posing in this or any other nation as a live body for the people.