thine that one of the most important steps towards ultimate prevention of war is that engineers themselves shall realize the tremendous resources to which they have access, and shall aim at applying them to this end... -if engineering principles could be applied on the international scale a8 thoroughly and efficiently as they often are within a single industry, the most astonishing progress could be made," said Mr, J. Haynes Wilson in a pres~ ident address which he gave before the second ordinary meeting of the Engineering Society of China on November 1.
He would like, he said, to see their by-laws amplified to include among. objects the organization of pence, and would suggest a resolu tion something as follows:—IneePing Society of China itr elforis to overcome. pre to, consolidate' public. ephiion, Sgmmon puspse of all eninering Inanaguiont of tmaehines ahd nelivlties indent theta ft fs possible to rasa "general well the. popula Hon St the world Atter dealing with society's past activities and hopes for the future, hho turned to the present local situation, No one would deny that the war of to-day would be impossible without the yield of the accumulative efforts of engineers for decades past, Many had indeed said that the pro-duets of science should be yetardfed until such time as mankind was properly able to manage the mae chinery or handle the discoveries developed to the benefit of the world at large, We, as engineers, have seen our handiwork greatly misused, We have had demonstrations of misapplied science. We have seen the offspring of scientific brains used Improperly. 'AIL around us is waste and destruelon instead of construction; retrogression Instead of progress: labour vain instead of time well spent; Dlunders, instead of efficiency; collapse instead of stability; loss instead of profit; depression and adversity Instead of prosperity, We have seen one machine used to destroy another, The modern barbariang of war are treating monuments of engineering as the barbations of old treated ancient edifices. So we descend!
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