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and not to design or adorn or create forms of beauty. 
In one sense the engineer has hardly any right to use 
his pencil apart from his rule and compass. The rule 
he may have, the compass is common property to archi- 
tect and engineer, while the pencil belongs especially to 
the architect. 
There are many men of undecerning minds, who fail 
to distinguish the difference between engineering 
skill, architectural talent, and building power, who 
fain would persuade themselves that what an archi- 
tect can do, an engineer should also be able to do or 
a builder may be permitted to do and vice versa ; 
while a little reflection, or rather a little more know- 
ledge, will help to make clear, that while the two pro- 
fessions (leaving the building trade out of the question) 
are in no way opposed to each other, there is a wide 
difference between them. 
The engineer is a man of constructive science, and 
should be of a mathematical turn of mind, and have if 
possible something of the mechanical genius about him. 
His power then is in construction, his pride in contri- 
vance. The true architect, while he encourages in him- 
self the above qualifications, is par-excellence, a man 
of art-taste and talent. His power is in design, his 
pride in imparting beauty and in giving character. The 
builder's work is but mechanical and subject to the will or 
instruction of others. His power is in the good selection 
of material — his pride is in the careful execution of the 
design. 
The engineer may contrive and build up the skele- 
ton with consummate skill and care ; but he must 
hand it over to the architect to fill it up with form and 
