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So with our youths. We once taught them to make Latin verses, and called them educated; now we teach them to leap and to row, to hit a ball with a bat, and call them educated. Can they plough, can they sow, can they plant at the right time, or build with a steady hand? Is it the effort of their lives to be chaste, knightly, faithful, holy in thought, lovely in word and deed? Indeed it is, with some, nay, with many, and the strength of England is in them, and the hope; but we have to turn their courage from the toil of war to the toil of mercy; and their intellect from dispute of words to discernment of things; and their knighthood from the errantry of adventure to the state and fidelity of a kingly power. And then, indeed, shall abide, for them and for us, an incorruptible felicity, and an infallible religion; shall abide for us Faith, no more to be assailed by temptation, no more to be defended by wrath and by fear; shall abide with us Hope, no more to be quenched by the years that overwhelm, or made ashamed by the shadows that betray: - shall abide for us, and with us, the greatest of these; the abiding will, the abiding name of our Father. For the greatest of these is Charity.

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Bibliography

THE purpose of this bibliography is to give students and teachers who are interested in any of the principal ideas developed in the text suggestions for following them out. The number of titles here given has been restricted to those bearing directly on the thought of the book. It is believed that the material of the bibliography will be especially useful in assigning to undergraduates subjects for their own essays which are closely connected with the volume and which yet require further reading and thinking.

The arrangement of the bibliography corresponds section by section with the arrangement of the volume. In addition to these titles reference may be made in passing to the volumes themselves from which various essays in the book have been taken. Since these volumes have been mentioned throughout in the footnotes to the essays, it is unnecessary to repeat the titles here.

WRITING AND THINKING

Thomas Carlyle: "Inaugural Address at Edinburgh, 2nd April, 1866." Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volume VII.

A rambling address to undergraduates on reading and thinking, writing and keeping silent, full of Carlyle's characteristic humor and wisdom.

Frank Aydelotte: College English, New York, 1913. See especially Chapter XII.

THE ENGINEERING PROFESSION

Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, May, 1922, Vol. CI, No. 190.

The general title of the number is "The Ethics of the Professions and of Business.' Professor Christie's essay is reprinted from this number of the Annals. There is a parallel and able essay by E. A. Filene entitled "A Simple Code of Business Ethics," pp. 223-8, which is worthy of special attention.

John Ruskin: Unto This Last, Essay I, "The Roots of Honor."

There is no better analysis of the professional spirit than Ruskin's discussion in this chapter of "the real reason of the general lowness of estimate in which the profession of commerce is held, as compared with that of arms."

R. H. Tawney: The Acquisitive Society, 1921, Chapter VII, "Industry as a Profession."

A development of the thesis that, "a profession may be defined most simply as a trade which is organized for the performance of function. simply a collection of individuals who get a living for themselves by the same kind of work.

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E. A. Ross: "The Making of the Professions," International Journal of Ethics, October, 1916.

AIMS OF ENGINEERING EDUCATION

Waddell and Harrington: Addresses to Engineering Students, Kansas City, 2nd edition, 1912.

A volume of addresses by engineers to engineering students. Noteworthy as one of the first important

efforts to give to engineering students a statement of the ideals of the engineering profession and of what might be called the liberal side of engineering education.

John Henry Newman: The Idea of a University, Discourses V-VIII.

Delivered in 1852, these lectures are still in many respects unsurpassed in English as a definition of a liberal education.

C. J. Keyser: The Human Worth of Rigorous Thinking, 1916, and Mathematical Philosophy, 1922.

The engineering student will be particularly interested in the essay on "The Human Worth of Rigorous Thinking," which gives its title to the first volume, and in the essay on "Science and Engineering," which concludes the second. Both volumes are a militant defense of the "daintiness and pride of mathematicians" which Bacon condemns in the passage quoted by Macaulay, p. 354 above.

Owen Wister: Philosophy Four, 1901.

An exceedingly entertaining and at the same time exact illustration of Newman's theory of liberal knowledge.

PURE SCIENCE AND APPLIED

A. E. Kennelley and C. E. Skinner: "Industrial Research," Proceedings of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, October, 1917, Volume XXXVI, No. 10.

Arthur D. Little: "The Relation of Research to Industrial Development," Boston, 1917.

An address delivered before the Canadian Manufacturers Association in Toronto. An impressive statement of the cash value of research to the manufacturer.

Engineering Foundation: Research Narratives.

A series of brief two- or three-page narratives laying stress on the picturesque and romantic character of modern scientific research. Published by the Engineering Foundation, 29 West 39th Street, New York City. To be obtained from the Secretary, Mr. Alfred D. Flinn.

J. J. Carty: "The Relation of Pure Science to Industrial Research."

Presidential address delivered before the American Institute of Electrical Engineers in June, 1916, and published in the Proceedings in October of that year.

Thomas Babington Macaulay: History of England, Vol. I, Chapter III.

This is an exultant summary of the development in the comforts and conveniences of life in England between the 17th and the 19th Centuries. It displays the same enthusiasm for scientific progress which Macaulay shows in his essay on Bacon.

SCIENCE AND LITERATURE

T. H. Huxley: Evolution and Ethics. The Romanes Lecture at Oxford in 1893.

To be compared with Macaulay's chapter and the Essay on Bacon referred to above and with the essay by L. P. Jacks-all of them commentaries on our modern faith in progress which has been so vigorously attacked by Dean Inge.

Dallas Lore Sharp: Turtle Eggs for Agassiz. Printed in the Atlantic Monthly, February, 1910, and reprinted in the volume "The Spring of The Year."

An episode in the history of science which belongs only in literature. It suggests interesting reflections on the relations between the two forms of thought.

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