>HREE out of the six immortal modern LITTLE 

 scientists began life as surveyors and civil JOURNEYS 

 engineers Wallace, Tyndall and Spencer. 

 From the number of eminent men, not 

 forgetting Leonardo da Vinci, Washing- 

 ton, Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, Henry 

 Thoreau aye! nor old John Brown, who carried a 

 Gunter's chain and manipulated the transit we must 

 conclude that there is something in the business of 

 surveying that conduces to clear thinking and strong 

 independent action. 



If I had a boy who by nature and habit was given to 

 futilities, I would apprentice him to a civil engineer. 

 {{When two gangs of men begin a tunnel, working 

 toward each other from different sides of a mountain, 

 dreams, poetry, hypothesis and guesswork had better 

 be omitted from the equation. Here, at last, is a case 

 where metaphysics has no bearing. It is a condition 

 that confronts them, not a theory. 



Theological explanations are assumptions built upon 

 hypotheses, and your theologian always insists that 

 you shall be dead before you can know. 

 If a bridge breaks down or a fire-proof building burns 

 to ashes, no explanation on the part of the architect 

 can explain away the miscalculation ; but your theolo- 

 gian always evolves his own fog, into which he can 

 withdraw at will, thus making escape easy. 

 Darwin, Huxley, Spencer, Tyndall and Wallace all 

 had the mathematical mind jt Nothing but the truth 

 would satisfy them. In school, you remember how we 



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