Sitting in one of his directional offices and checking sales figures, he would have been ashamed to think otherwise than commercially and technically; but as soon as it was no longer the firm’s money that was at stake, he would have been ashamed not to think the other way round and insist that mankind must be made capable of evolving upwards on some other way than the erroneous path of regularity, rules and regulations, norms, and the like, the results of which are so utterly lacking in inner meaning and are in the last resort inessential.