['Be fair to yourself - Be decent to yourself': Lord Leverhulme [William Hesketh Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme], soap manufacturer, industrialist and philanthropist.] Signed Typescript of his reflection on 'Vision and Service'.

See his entry in the Oxford DNB. 1p, 4to. Eighteen lines of typed text, under the heading ‘VISION AND SERVICE.’ Undated, but certainly written after 1918, since the document is responding to changes since ‘the pre-war world of yesterday’. The final reference to a ladder, echoes a passage in Leverhulme’s 1919 tract ‘The Six-hour Day and other Industrial Questions’. Large bold signature at bottom right: ‘Leverhulme’. The signature and its environs are in good condition, on a document of aged and worn paper, with tearing to a central horizontal fold repaired with archival tape. Begins: ‘Be fair to yourself - Be decent to yourself - Have vision and faith in your future - Vision for the future is God’s greatest gift to man. Vision will give you wings of liberty and enable you to render the best service to your fellow-man. “Without vision the people perish”. Don’t worry about wages, salary or rewards.’ The final paragraph (apparently cribbed from Andrew Carnegie) reads: ‘No loving friend can push a man up a ladder. But the greatest friend of mankind has placed the ladder firm and solid for his creature man to climb to the sublimest heights of noblest service.’