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otherwise than in designing and testing it, and 

 which calls mechanical engineering the con- 

 struction, daily use, and maintenance of machines. 

 I make no complaint of the ordinary language 

 which so designates civil engineering, and dis- 

 tinguishes it from mechanical engineering. I 

 only say that it is not logical. Take, again, 

 architecture. 



Architecture is not commonly called a branch 

 of engineering at all. I think it unfortunate that 

 the public do not regard architecture as a branch 

 of engineering. When architects come to regard 

 themselves as engineers, and when the public come 

 to expect them to act as engineers, let us hope 

 they will give us buildings not less beautiful and 

 not less interestingly connected with monuments 

 and traditions of beauty from bygone ages than 

 MVC us now. But assuredly there will then 

 iS typhoid fever. Then invalids too ill to 

 walk, or ride, or drive out of doors, or to be bene- 

 fited by the beautiful scenery of Men tone, or 

 Corsica, or Madeira, will not be expatriated merely 

 to avoid the evil effects of the indoor atmosphere 



