26 SCIENCE 



"And as the mechanical engineer was 

 responsible in no small measure for the trans- 

 formation, so he must be held responsible for 

 the maintenance and efficiency of the work- 

 shop on which the feeding of the people and 

 the defence of the people against their enemies 

 now depend. He became and he remains a 

 trustee of the British Empire. How did he 

 discharge the trust ? By humbly seeking know- 

 ledge to turn the gifts of Nature to the use of 

 man ? By invoking the aid of science to develop 

 the discoveries of the men who had prepared 

 the road to his success ? By caring for the wel- 

 fare of the thousands who were spending their 

 waking hours in his factories? By giving 

 them a fair share of the profits of his business ? 

 I think we have the grace to-day to answer 

 NO. I think we are willing to confess that 

 our heads were turned by elation at our 

 prosperity, that we were obsessed by admira- 



