Centenaries, '62: I. THE ‘TWO CULTURES’ IN 1862

“The general principles of the steam engine are easily acquired and should form a branch of education for the benefit of both sexes…. It is a branch of knowledge of deep importance to the present and rising generations … it would familiarise the more intelligent classes with objects on which we depend for the comforts and enjoyments of life. I do not mean that we should make scholars engineers but they ought to be taught the general principles of these arts in order to appreciate their value and to apply them to the useful purposes by which we are surrounded.”