Download or read book Journal of the Engineers Society of Pennsylvania (Classic Reprint) written by Engineers' Society of Pennsylvania and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-21 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Journal of the Engineers Society of Pennsylvania As far as the engineer is concerned, this reflection points to the increasing importance of economy in the use of natural resources not in the sense that enterprise should be checked, which is im possible, save from inherent causes, but rather that there should be no needless waste of the materials entering into manufacture and construction. This, in the higher sense, will be one of the great moral responsibilities of our profession in the future. The other overshadowing problem which touches the engineer closely has to do with the adjustment of the wage-earning classes to the modern scale of undertakings. The conflict between socialistic and individualistic points of view never has been, and in my opinion never will be, anything more than a struggle between theory and practice, in which the practical point of view will prevail. Hundreds of communistic experiments have been tried, some broad and far-reaching in scope, but none has succeeded because no plan has yet been devised that did not pre-suppose a radical change in human nature. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.