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ing must have the same effect as all other branches of engineering; 

 namely, to dispel illusion, dignify all labor, exalt truth and precision, 

 gradually eliminate superstition, bring home to consciousness the 

 infinite simplicity of nature, and indicate that no good thing can be 

 humanly acquired without effort and training. 



In a certain sense engineering is destined to assist in effecting the 

 apotheosis of humanity. Every step taken by the people along the 

 path of civilization makes degeneration to dissociative barbarism the 

 more difficult and unlikely. The methods that men adopt to subject 

 the immediate universe to their will react by subjecting their will to 

 the laws of the universe. Centuries ago men dreamed of the civiliza- 

 tion that they, by uniting and cooperating, might initiate for their 

 successors to attain. Already that civilization has so far dawned that 

 it has modified us to its requirements, and we live for it as well by it. 

 The difficulty of fitting ourselves for it is greater than that of fitting 

 it for us. Whatever modifications civilization may undergo in the 

 course of time must be molded in accordance with the developments 

 of engineering, which are themselves but the interpretations into 

 human ideals of the attributes of nature. 



