This does not mean the stifling of engineering progress. This means that the engineer should be an intelligent connecting link between Science and Society. The original had a word count of 1176 words. The increased output per man-hour is tremendous, about 300 to 400 per cent. But that is an inadequate yardstick.
Man has food, clothing, and shelter, but so do the beasts of the field.
When reputable British and American engineers begin to acknowledge the responsibility of engineering sciences to promote human welfare to provide a richer and more satisfying life there is really something new under the sun. We are given a firmer basis for the hope that better controlled use of engineering science will result in man's having a higher percentage of his energy available for enjoying things instead of merely making things. So, depending on one's fancy, the third page can be imagined as a masterful prescription for bringing about the changes envisioned. During my Junior year at Harvard, 1939-1940, I have a vague recollection of an encounter with Compton. I was living at that time in Dunster House.