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Excerpt from The Engineer
If we eliminate any one of the engineering elements which underlie our present civiliza tion, the entire structure collapses. Let us suppose, for instance, that the mining - Engi neer is suddenly removed. The most imme diate effect would be the lack of fuel for our manufacture and commerce. Machinery could no longer be made, because there would be no metal. The use of electricity would cease, because there would be no copper. Education which depends on print ing, literature, the arts, all the luxuries and conveniences and most of the necessities of life would come abruptly to an end, and we should be plunged immediately into the darkness of the stone age.
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