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ATTENTION has been called to this important subject by a pamphlet recently issued by the Institution of Civil Engineers, containing a clear and well-digested account of the education and status of engineers at home and abroad. The pamphlet, however, is more remarkable for its omissions than for its contents, among which we find premisses warranting a conclusion or many conclusions concerning the education and position of the engineer in different countries. The documents which have been employed in its compilation have been collected, arranged, and issued, under the supervision of the Council of the Institution of Civil Engineers, a body most able to draw conclusions, and to give practical effect to any resolution they may adopt, and yet no conclusion whatever is drawn, and no resolution whatever is adopted. Perhaps, indeed, the Council consider that the education of engineers in England cannot be improved; this interpretation may easily be given to the short summary given of the English system, contained in the following passages:—
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The Education of Civil Engineers . Nature 3, 301–302 (1871). https://doi.org/10.1038/003301a0
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