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Excerpt from Engineering the New Age What man can do, with the enormously expanded facilities at his command, to make his terrestrial home a better place to live in is the substance of this book. "If we are going to do an engineering job on building a new age and a new world, it would be well to get firmly fixed in our minds the idea that it is a big one, and it will be necessary to proceed in the way an engineer would-by getting thoroughly acquainted with the site on which the construction work will be done, and with conditions in the neighborhood which will influence the planning, the building operations, and the use of the completed structure. The site upon which we are going to build is the earth, and its neighborhood is the universe. It is, perhaps, of even greater importance to the engineer to ascertain something about the people he is dealing with. The people, in this case, will comprise the human race and in particular that portion of it in the United States upon whom there has descended a responsibility for world leadership." These are the author's words, the words of a man who, through his previous books and his weekly newspaper articles, has intrigued thousands of readers with his ability to apply the discoveries of the scientists to the present and future problems of daily living which concern us all. Engineering The New Age challenges the intelligent citizen to step up and play a part in building the world of tomorrow. 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