MAN AND MACHINES
PROBLEM OF DEVELOPMENT "Thanks to the engineer we have a material scheme ready to hand for a new age, a new civilisation; but because of our sociological stagnation we have a political and social organisation that belongs to an outlived culture," stated Professor James Shelley, of Canterbury University Collego, in an address to members of tho New Zealand Society of Civil Engineers, in the James Watt commemoration lecture at Victoria University College, Wellington. "It is for us to determine whether the great inventor shall ultimately prove to be a great destroyer or a great deliverer of the spirit of mankind," he said. "A very cursory survey of man's life to-day will convince most thinking people that it is the engine which is using man rather than man which is using tho engine."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22352, 25 February 1936, Page 14
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