Spencer Heath Archive

Item 1465

Carbon of letter from Heath to Margot Luker

July 11, 1950

 

 

 

Dear Mrs. Luker:

 

     I have typed out below as you requested the substance of the remarks I made to you over the telephone this afternoon.

 

                        Sincerely,

OBJECTIVE OBSERVATIONS

     The intent, and the actions, of labor unions is always to put less and less services into a business while taking more and more of the profits out of it.

     The action of the owners of a successful business is always to put more and more services into the business while taking a less and less proportion of the profits out of it. There is no other way for an unprivileged or unsubsidized business to grow.

     Conventional, present-day sociologists attach enormous importance to the subjective intent of persons engaged in political or in business operations, so much so that they actually judge the quality and social effects of such opera­tions in accordance with the supposed or actual good or bad intentions of the parties proposing or performing them.

     Men were no more irrational and superstitious when they supposed that other operations of nature could be governed as to good or evil by the good or bad intentions of the persons who set them in motion.

     Such notions reside with muddle-minded men whose thinking, if any, proceeds from their glands and hind brain instead of from their frontal lobes, as they try to suppose and pretend.

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