Read chapters from 18 to 20 and answer the following questions:

1. What characteristic of Henry Ford do we get from the 18-th chapter? What was the essence of Henry Ford’s invention that shook America in the beginning of the 20-th century and why?

2. Speak about the ear of industrialization and technological revolution. What was the final proposition of the theory of industrial manufacture as Ford thought it?

3. Speak about Morgan and his constant search for equals, comment of the phrase “the cold and barren reaches of unlimited success”. But was he so inaccessibly great and was different from any other mortal person? Morgan had one flaw (say what it was), but was it a real curse of his or a blessing – a touch of God?

4. Pierpont Morgan venerated an ancient philosophy still present in the minds of some thinkers of the world, that the universe is changeless and that death is followed by the resumption of life. What is the essence of this philosophical concept? Trace it’s development in Morgan’s speech to Rosicrucian philosophy, and say what role did Morgan provide for himself and for Ford in this concept?

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Cultural notes for chapters 18 -20:

Hurdy-gurdy - (The hurdy gurdy or hurdy-gurdy, also known as a wheel fiddle) is a stringed musical instrument in which the strings are sounded by means of a rosined wheel which the strings of the instrument pass over. This wheel, turned with a crank, functions much like a violin bow, making the instrument essentially a mechanical violin. Melodies are played on a keyboard that presses tangents (small wedges, usually made of wood) against one or more of these strings to change their pitch. Like most other acoustic string instruments, it has a soundboard to make the vibration of the strings audible.

M odel T auto­mobile - (colloquially known as the Tin Lizzie and Flivver) is an automobile that was produced by Henry Ford's Ford Motor Company from 1908 through 1927. The Model T set 1908 as the historic year that the automobile came into popular usage. It is generally regarded as the first affordable automobile, the car that "put America on wheels"; some of this was because of Ford's innovations, including assembly line production instead of individual hand crafting, as well as the concept of paying the workers a wage proportionate to the cost of the car, so that they would provide a ready made market. he standard 4-seat open tourer of 1909 cost $850 (equivalent to $20,091 today), when competing cars often cost $2,000-$3,000 (equivalent to $47,274-$70,911 today); in 1913, the price dropped to $550 (equivalent to $11,819 today), and $440 in 1915 (equivalent to $9,237 today). In 1914, an assembly line worker could buy a Model T with four months' pay.

Henry Ford - (July 30, 1863 – April 7, 1947) was the American founder of the Ford Motor Company and father of modern assembly lines used in mass production. His introduction of the Model T automobile revolutionized transportation and American industry. Henry Ford's intense commitment to lowering costs resulted in many technical and business innovations, including a franchise system that put a dealership in every city in North America, and in major cities on six continents.

"The Birth-Mark" - is a romantic short story written by Nathaniel Hawthorne that examines obsession with human perfection. It was first published in the March, 1843 edition of The Pioneer. It later appeared in Mosses from an Old Manse, a collection of short stories by Hawthorne published in 1846..

Aix-les-Bainsn - is a commune in the Savoie department in the Rhône-Alpes region in south-eastern France. It lies near the Lac du Bourget, 9 km (5.6 mi) by rail north of Chambéry.

Aix derives from Latin Aquae (literally, "waters"; cf Aix-la-Chapelle (Aachen) or Aix-en-Provence), and Aix was a bath during the Roman Empire, even before it was renamed Aquae Gratianae to commemorate the Emperor Gratian, who was assassinated not far away, in Lyon, in 383. Numerous Roman remains survive.

Canopic jar - canopic jars were used by the Ancient Egyptians during the mummification process to store and preserve the viscera of their own for the afterlife.

V is­cera - In anatomy, a viscus (pronounced /ˈvɪskəs/) (plural: viscera /ˈvɪsərə/) is an internal organ of an animal (including humans), in particular an internal organ of the thorax or abdomen. The viscera, when removed from a butchered animal, are known collectively as offal. Internal organs are also known as "innards", or less formally, "guts" (which may also refer to the gastrointestinal tract).

Seti I - Menmaatre Seti I (also called Sethos I after the Greeks) was a Pharaoh of Ancient Egypt (Nineteenth dynasty of Egypt), the son of Ramesses I and Queen Sitre, and the father of Ramesses II.

The Theban Necropolis - is an area of the west bank of the Nile, opposite Thebes in Egypt. It was used for ritual burials for much of Pharaonic times, especially in the New Kingdom of Egypt.

T he Valley of the Kings (Arabic: "Gates of the King") is a valley in Luxor, Egypt where, for a period of nearly 500 years from the 16th to 11th century BC, tombs were constructed for the kings and powerful nobles of the New Kingdom (the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Dynasties of Ancient Egypt). The valley stands on the west bank of the Nile, opposite Thebes (modern Luxor), within the heart of the Theban Necropolis.

M or­gan Library - The Morgan Library & Museum (formerly The Pierpont Morgan Library) is a museum and research library in New York City, USA. It was founded to house the private library of J. P. Morgan in 1906, which included, besides the manuscripts and printed books, some of them in rare bindings, his collection of prints and drawings.

R osicrucian texts - the Rosicrucian Cosmo-Conception or Mystic Christianity is a Rosicrucian text, written by Max Heindel. According to it in the beginning of a Day of Manifestation a certain collective Great Being, God, limits Himself to a certain portion of space, in which He elects to create a Solar System for the evolution of added self-consciousness.

The Invisi­ble College - The Invisible College was a precursor to the Royal Society of United Kingdom. It consisted of a group of natural philosophers (scientists).

Hermetica - Hermetica is a category of literature dating from Late Antiquity that purports to contain secret wisdom, generally attributed to Hermes Trismegistus, "thrice-great Hermes".

T he Great Pyramid - The Great Pyramid of Giza (also called the Pyramid of Khufu and Pyramid of Cheops) is the oldest and largest of the three pyramids in the Giza Necropolis bordering what is now Cairo, Egypt, and is the only one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World that survives substantially intact.