Small improvements can lead to big changes. A few flowers can change the look of a room. The efficiency of a factory for instance, depends upon an infinite number of operations performed poorly from day to day. Abraham Maslow, the well-known psychologist, mentioned with admiration the case of a young man who spent several years in Mexico digging deep wells to provide clean drinking water to the villagers. He managed to dig only three wells and had to spend an enormous amount of time teaching the villagers to use pure water in place of contaminated water. There might have been only three wells but they gave the engineer a great feeling of achievement. Charles Darwin has shown that, given enough time for small and gradual causes can produce large and radical changes. His last book was in fact on earthworms. He was preoccupied with the theme for forty years. He had shown that, on every acre of the Chall, hills near Down (England) worms brought up eighteen tons of earth annually. What a stupendous achievement for the small and insignificant earthworm! Even the dullest of men was a million times more creative and productive than the earthworm. If men were to work in unison like the earthworms, there would be a paradise on earth in not too distant future. Q 1. What would have happened if the engineer had not dug wells?
The engineer would never have discovered the hidden treasure.
Abraham Maslow would not hadmired the engineer.
The villagers would never have learnt the importance of consuming pure water.
The engineer would never have saved his time and not wasting it on the foolish villagers.