THE SPIRIT OF ENTERPRISE
As the human race evolved from its ancestors, many factors affected its
survival and the course of its evolution. While we lacked strength and speed, we
were endowed with intelligence which enabled us to acquire first weapons and
shelter, then fire, art, domestic animals, crops, medicines, sciences, machines and, .
finally, all the blessings and curses of modern society. Throughout history, our race
has been industrious and resourceful, driven by instinct to explore and discover, to
invent, and to improve and protect our ways of life. Of course, these instincts exist to
varying degrees in all people, and are essential to the survival of our civilization -
but alone they are not enough. Major progress has always called for individuals to
lead the way with inventions, voyages of discovery, or other projects that have gone
that one step further. Often these endeavours received little support when they were
initiated; typically, they were called difficult or impossible, untried or too risky,
eccentric or even worthless. But the bold and energetic people who undertook them
overcame adversity, succeeded and, eventually, were recognized for their
achievement. Then the words used to describe them changed, and they were
admired for their originality, inspiration, courage and tenacity! Why did these
individuals succeed? It was because all of them possessed an extra measure of that
quality which has been the catalyst of virtually all progress in our history - the "spirit
of enterprise".
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