Engineering manufacturers at home had realized the necessity of sending to China fully qualified men who would prepare entire schemes, supervise the erection of plants, eic, and it seemed to him that when peace came British manufacturers must benefit from having out here men who had shown their Chinese friends that they were capable of slying scund advice and who had in the past supplied material and machinery that gave good value Previous to the existence of their Institutions, men lived in a way Which, broadly speaking, was the same as it had been since the remotest eras. Now they had provided themselves with new means of tran: port, methods of lighting and of communication, and with a multitude of labour-saving devices. Some considered that the discovery of these new methods of adapting the forces of nature to the use and convenience of men had been too rapid, and had resulted in the present state of the world being worse than it had ever been.
Proposing the toast to the guests, S. F. Flemons, chairman of the Institution of Electrical Engineers, China Centre, said that with the rapid progress of the science of art ud engineering, it could not be denied that many engineering developments that should be of large benefit to civilization were in fact ut to uses which reacted enormous
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