Excerpt from The Young Man and Civil Engineering
"There be three things which make a nation great and prosperous: a fertile soil, busy workshops, and the easy conveyance of men and commodities from one place to another." Bacon.
"Of all inventions, the alphabet and the printing press alone excepted, those inventions which abridge distance have done most for the civilization of our species." Macaulay.
"What is vulgar, and the essence of all vulgarity, but the avarice of reward? 'Tis the difference of artisan and artist, of talent and genius, of sinner and saint. The man whose eyes are nailed, not on the nature of his act, but on the wages, - whether it be money, or office, or fame, - is almost equally low." Emerson.
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