The Most Important Influence in Transformation: A Catalogue of the Country's Natural Resources At the meeting of the Engineering Society of China, on Tuesday, Herbert Chatley, after expressing his appreciation of the honour done to him by re-electing him President of the 'Society, said that, at this Peculiar epoch' in China's history when the Governnient waz in theory committed to a policy of reconstruction on modern lines, he deemed it not inappreprite to deal in rather bron terms with the unique rile which an engineer must play i civilization whose basis is applied science, The profession of a civil engineer is defined by a well-known authority as "the art of directing the grent sources of power in Nature for the use and convenience of mat It is well-known that this defi jon war made to distinguish the profession from mat of the military engineer and in this. sense the title "civil engineer" includes any engineer in a civil occupation.
There can be little doubt that the applications of technical science form the most. teristic feature of modern civilization and the engineer in China represents the most important influence in the process of transformation which appears to be imminent in this great country The politicians who vaunt the vi tues of democratic government or claim) that their ideas form a panacea for the ills of the world general azd their own country particular nearly all tend to overlook this vital fuet, The general higher standard of living which has. been created in recent years is entirely due to the the exploitation of the great sources of power in Nature and the organization of men for that exploitation.
Justices, unneces perverse use of doniatly exist, hi overcome the fact that eng indispensable to modern that any sound political scheme must take it very largely into account,
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