Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907. Excerpt: ... SUMMARY. This series of papers has now reviewed the Panama Canal in its three aspects--financial, executive and technical. The facts have been set forth and the necessary conclusions deduced from them. A general summary of what the evidence proved is in order. The foreword recalled that we are no longer a small band of colonies separated from the Old World by dividing oceans. We have become nation of nations, with wide seas, binding, not sundering. We are possessed in these latter days of an Oriental domain which we must defend. The southern half of our west land continent is stirring in the great living impulse of growth. Wc must weave and knit our national ideas and influences as we lead the mighty march to the goal. Again we have become Mother Earth's greatest producers, and our prosperity demands not a limited but a universal market. Because the Panama Canal is indissolubly part of America's power, of her chance, of her race-right, of her duty, it must be built at whatever cost and sacrifice. The waterway is one of the specialized undertakings whose success or failure depends primarily upon the right technical judgment. Good managers or bad managers may be important, but they do not carry the very existence of the enterprise in their decisions. Engineering, however, lies at the sources of its being; it is the very well spring of the canal's life. So essential is right engineering to its vital possibility that no man can be considered a friend who intrusts its destinies to the wrong order of technical mind. Its whole execution and its entire future of service sway upon these verdicts, end the loyalty of each and every official must be measured directly in his fearless elimination of the wrong men from its affairs. The technical decisions unto which th...
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