"To some of my hearers, the ver-diet might be that all that has been said is a study in perfection, wherein the speaker appears not to have been deterred from making sweeping as-sections. But if the assertions and the inevitable presentation of distasteful facts embrace in themselves germs of truth, and if the discerning individual can apply some of these to his own particular activities, then the assertions may have their uses. also, if my remarks in any small degree have stimulated thought towards ways and means of outlawing war and a icalization of the t function of an engineer, I am satisfied great reward' of success would be a stable, happy world, no longer haunted by fear and hate, while. the penalty of inaction is hun suffering and despair."
Mr. Wilson, it may be noted, is act instant general manager of the Shanghai Telephone Ca., and has done, and is doing, much to maintain communications throughout the whole of Shanghai during the present hostilities, thousands of useful things from nails to spoons, shoes to books, and, most important and tragic of all, made possible the machinery of war.
Engineering to-day was an exact science and the usual problems encountered were susceptible of analysis with mathematical precision. Obviously, there were many problems, say of economic and sane administration which, because of his methodical mentality, the engineer was specially fitted to study and often solve. Engineers were patient investigators who were seeking to enlarge the boundaries of knowledge, who were not deterred from exploring beyond known limits, or if the view from a new standpoint revealed new facts modifying previous conceptions.
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