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Show Fear Was a Friend A few weeks before his death Lord Leverhulme, in his presidential address ad-dress to the Institute of Certified Grocers at Scarborough, said that he felt sure that the greatest help to any of them was fear, and that fear had been his best friend. His first recollection recol-lection was fear. He had fear of continuing con-tinuing a clerk at his father's business, busi-ness, and that fear persuaded his father fa-ther to put him on the road as a- commercial com-mercial traveler at the age of nineteen. nine-teen. He married at the age of twenty-two, twenty-two, and then fear came as to whether the profits would keep a wife. Later fear drove him Into soap. His soap, widely advertised, was Boated as a company In 1894. In the words of one of his numerous obituaries: "The years that followed marked the growth of a business Ideal that was almost-epic In Its triumphs and ramifications." Spectator, London. |