Thursday, July 09, 2015

 

Incompetence

Herman Melville (1819-1891), White-Jacket, chapter 27:
True, all experience teaches that, whenever there is a great national establishment, employing large numbers of officials, the public must be reconciled to support many incompetent men; for such is the favouritism and nepotism always prevailing in the purlieus of these establishments, that some incompetent persons are always admitted, to the exclusion of many of the worthy.



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