Excerpt from Literature for Engineers: An Address Delivered Before the Colleges of Civil and Mechanical Engineering In any case, we are not here for the arraignment of deficiencies, which, if they exist, are due to the general status of technical education throughout the country. But if, overtly or indirectly, we must mor alize for a moment, let us at all events discuss no form of self-seeking, cultural or otherwise. Far be it from a teacher of literature, of the most social of all the arts, to say to any man: 'go to; read now this, that, and the other literary masterpiece - read Milton, read Shakespeare - simply for your own sake, ' for the sake of what is called self-improvement. If true culture is essentially and inherently social, if it is inherently self-denying, sympathetic, we had better realize this essential and inherent nature of the thing at the outset. 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.