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Excerpt from Education Civil engineers are constructing rail-roads, and mechanical engineers are guiding our steamships, whose education has been obtained at the Collegiate Institute. Mechanics, mer chants and farmers, whose number can be counted by hundreds have occupied our recitation seats and solved problems at our blackboards. 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.