Excerpt from Engineering Education Essays for English, Selected and Edited

Our inquiry into the logical order of the causes which have made our civilization what it is to-day will be facilitated by bringing to mind certain ele mentary considerations - ideas so familiar that set ting them forth may seem like citing a body of truisms - and yet so frequently overlooked, not only individually, but in their relation to each other, that the conclusion to which they lead may be lost to sight. One of these propositions is that psychical rather than material causes are those which we should regard as fundamental in directing the development of the social organism. The human intellect is the really active agent in every branch of endeavor the primum mobile of civilization - and all those material manifestations to which our attention is so often directed are to be regarded as secondary to this first agency. If it be true that in the world is nothing great but man, in man is nothing great but mind, then should the keynote of our discourse be the recognition of this first and greatest of powers.

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