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make it their business to adapt the resources of Nature to the use 

 and convenience of man. 



Where shall we look for a remedy ? I cannot tell. Some may 

 envisage a distant Utopia in which there will be perfect adjustment 

 of labour and the fruits of labour, a fair spreading of employment 

 and of wages and of all the commodities that machines produce. 

 Even so the question will remain, How is man to spend the leisure 

 he has won by handing over nearly all his burden to an untiring 

 mechanical slave ? Dare he hope for such spiritual betterment as 

 will qualify him to use it well ? God grant he may strive for that 

 and attain it. It is only by seeking he will find. I cannot think 

 that man is destined to atrophy and cease through cultivating what 

 after all is one of his most God-like faculties, the creative ingenuity 

 of the engineer. 



