Hongkong University Professor's Address to Shanghai Rotarians of Raising the standard of living Applied science as the only means Shone China's milieu, and. suse cessfully waging war against those {wo dread enemies of human abject poverty and terrifying, ease, was the subject of an address tothe Shanghai. Rotary Club Sone '21 by" Professor C. A. Mile dleton-Smith, mse, Dean of the Faculty "of Engineering In the University" of Hongkong.
Those of us who are. intimately connected with machinery are Foughly questioned by. the critics, And' warned that. inquisitive, won: dering about our ideals and the results of our work, is the deep stir ring of emotional revolt against the mechanization that we have forced Spon the! world said Pret Midler fon-Smith. In Asin there are Headers sch ax Gandhi who blame science for all. the ills that beset frail humanity: in Europe, Belloc, Ghesterton and many others. say that our so-called "progress" is but the deadly irritant that is disturb ing mankind with threats of destruction and catastrophe.
Of course, we, who are planning for, and nourish hopes of finer things for the future, cannot main silent when such mise Sentations of our work are made to you. We are confident that we Shaping a. new civilisation and a better world; and that even to-day the selfless efforts of inventors and scientific' workers have brought countless blessings and longer life to millions on the planet, Yet that is but a. beginning. 7 New ideas seldom moot with a goad reception and even Rotary has een Hdleuled, "The word "Technocracy" suddenly leapt into the Timectight of the front pages of a syndicated press, and passed quickly into the comic journals, chiefly Because nobody who ridiculed understood what it meant, But the Dattalion of "engineers "who for years carefully compiled facts, and drew significant. curves, did. work that, like all: scientific effort, will dear' good fruit in time. Ridicule didn't prevent day-light saving, aviation oF radio, and honest en: deavour will survive. the quip of the professional. jester.
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