The engineer must shoulder some of the blame, for engineering influenced almost all human actions.
Only the classics were free from the developments of their profession. Technicians to-day spanned very broad rivers, went through mown-tains, broadcast sound through space, created devices which turned out engineering that it was important to reiterate that engineers must take a much larger part in the administration and control of human affairs.
He did not claim that engineers were superior in all respects to others, but that they should be the most practi cal of all. "If they would realize the broader meaning of the forward march of improvement in human welfare, and become mindful of past and possible future greatness, instead of esteeming lightly the capacities of their profession and drifting through life in a more or less shambling manner with the comfortable feeling that they are doing pretty well,' then their power would be illimitable."
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