662 MINING ENGINEERING 



Speaking of the young engineer, he says: "He must be truthful 

 and worthy of trust, must mean what he says and say what he 

 means. If he cannot do this he must be silent." And again: "All 

 men whose advancement depends on those above them must not 

 only be, but also seem, faithful to those above them." 



He calls attention to the fact that the lawyer, the physician, 

 and, to some extent also, the clergyman, depends for his success 

 almost entirely upon his individual knowledge and intellectual 

 abilities. Such a man may or may not be personally agreeable to 

 those for whom he works; it is his knowledge and his technical 

 skill that we wish to utilize in an emergency. These are his own 

 possessions, and he can utilize them unaided and without the co- 

 operation of others. 



But with the engineer this is not the case. His work cannot be 

 done except through the friendly aid, not only of many engineer- 

 ing co-workers, but also through the help of capital and labor, the 

 two most difficult elements in our civilization. From the incep- 

 tion of the original idea to its final completion, men and money, 

 brains and brawn, nature and human nature, must work together 

 without friction for a common purpose. 



The young engineer must win the confidence of his superiors 

 by a faithfulness and loyalty, free from subservience; he must 

 secure the good will and liking of his equals by frankness and open- 

 ness of nature; he must command the respect of his subordinates 

 by his evident mastery of his business, his sense of justice, his free- 

 dom from petty meanness, and his fearlessness in the discharge of 

 duty. The man who cannot meet the requirements of any one 

 of these three relations, no matter what his knowledge and tech- 

 nical skill, is sure to fail. And because they possess these qualities 

 in a high degree, many men of very ordinary abilities often succeed 

 as engineers, when men of superior genius lamentably fail. 



When men must work together day and night, side by side, in 

 intimate personal contact, where relations of subordination and 

 command necessarily must exist, there must be no friction. Even 

 a slight uncouthness of nature, or rudeness of manner, objection- 

 able personal habits, or lack of tact, become simply unbearable at 

 such close quarters. 



All this is most emphatically true of the mining engineer. No 

 men except soldiers, sailors, explorers, and astronomers are subject 

 to such a strain on their endurance. 



As was also pointed out by Mr. Wellington, the necessity for 

 the cultivation of the social graces and amenities of life, for habits 

 of personal neatness, for self-control and uniform good nature 

 under conditions of hardship and privation, have always been 

 recognized as essential qualities in the army and the navy. That 





