Perhaps one day a saga may be written about the modern captain of industry. Perhaps, in the civilization which succeeds our own, a legend of the entrepreneur will be thumbed by antiquarians, and told as a winter tale by the firelight, as today our sages assemble fragments of priestly mythologies from the Nile, and as we tell to children of Jason's noble quest of the Golden Fleece. But what form such a legend may take it is not at all easy to foresee. Whether the businessman be the Jason or the Aetes in the story depends on other secrets which those unloved sisters keep hid where they store their scissors and their thread. We have, indeed, the crude unwrought materials for such a legend to hand in plenty, but they are suitable, strange to say, for legends of two sharply different kinds. The Golden Fleece is there, right enough, as the background of the story. But the captain of industry may be cast in either of two roles: as the noble, daring, high-souled adventurer, sailing in the teeth of storm and danger to wrest from barbarism a prize to enrich his countrymen; or else as a barbarous tyrant, guarding his treasure with cunning and laying snares to entrap Jason, who comes with the breath of a new civilization to challenge his power and possession.