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16 I scarcely need to tell engineers about their own connection. If it had not been for engineers we should have a scale of living at the present time no better than that of the Chinese. The English-speaking people would be no further ahead than they were during the reigns of the first two Georges. The whole hope of the future depends more than anything else upon what we engineers are going to do. It devolves upon us therefore to have a clear vision of economic principles and we must show that we are sound in order to get the public to listen to us while we accept the responsibilities that are put upon our shoulders.