Excerpt from Transactions of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, Vol. 9: 1916 Numerous writers and Speakers have called frequent attention to the great service which chemistry has rendered to humanity. In every field of industry she has been active, every product of man's labor has felt her magic touch. Modern civilization can be meas ured most accurately by considering the influence which chemistry has had upon industry and industrial operations. It is unnecessary here to tell what she has done. We are more concerned with the future than with the past, and judging the future by the past, the benefits which chemistry during the coming years will confer upon humanity will be infinitely valuable. On us, her votaries, is imposed the task of laying out the course of her progress, preparing and making the way easy for her and heralding her triumphant march. It is the purpose of this paper to indicate how this may best be done. It should be perfectly obvious that the purpose of all industry is to satisfy the desires of human beings. This is as true of chemical industry as it is of any other industry. The chemist renders human service. He is a human being himself and his service to human beings makes him a part of a great democratic commonwealth in which every member is a factor in the development of the whole. The Chemist is only a fraction in this commonwealth but the more he is organically a part of it the greater is his power of service. Like everyone else he does not exist by himself alone but is depend ent for his existence upon every other human being that is a part of the social organism. 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.

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