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gineering includes more, because there is no civil 

 purpose which requires rifled cannon, shot and 

 shell, congreve rockets, hand grenades, torpedoes, 

 ironclads, armed fortifications, mining under fire, 

 or under liability to hand-to-hand encounter with 

 an enemy, and field telegraphs. I have enumerated 

 all the subjects which I can think of that belong 

 exclusively to military engineering, and, except 

 these, all subjects of general engineering are 

 embraced in civil engineering, properly so called. 



The division between military and civil engineer- 

 ing is, therefore, not properly founded on a dis- 

 tinction in respect of the subject-matter, but it is 

 a true logical division in respect to the province 

 of application. Now remark the division between 

 civil and mechanical engineering a distinction 

 habitually used, as if the engineering of merchant 

 steamers, of cotton mills, of sugar machinery, of 

 calico printing, of letter-press printing, were 

 not truly parts of civil engineering. I make no 

 complaint of the ordinary language which des- 

 ignates as civil engineering only that which is 

 neither military, nor concerned with mechanism 



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