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[in Eighteenth-century Britain] Engineers For The Most Began As Simple Workmen, Skilful And Ambitious But Usually Illiterate And Self-taught. They Were Either Millwrights Like Bramah, Mechanics Like Murdoch And George Stephenson, Or Smiths Like Newcomen And Maudslay.

The Present Aristocracy Of Western Culture, At The Very Moment When It Most Clearly Dominates The World, Is Being Imitated Rapidly And Successfully In Every Eastern Country.

Naturalism Aimed At Giving The Primitive Wishes Full Play But Failed Because These Wishes Are Too Primitive, Too Infantile, Too Inconsistent With Themselves To Be Satisfied Even By The Greatest License.

So Many Of The Chemical Reactions Occurring In Living Systems Have Been Shown To Be Catalytic Processes Occurring Isothermally On The Surface Of Specific Proteins, Referred To As Enzymes, That It Seems Fairly Safe To Assume That All Are Of This Nature And That The Proteins Are The Necessary Basis For Carrying Out The Processes That We Call Life.

Pauling Was Shocked By The Freedom With Which The X-ray Crystallographers Of The Time, Including Particularly Astbury, Played With The Intimate Chemical Structure Of Their Models. They Seemed To Think That If The Atoms Were Arranged In The Right Order And About The Right Distance Apart, That Was All That Mattered, That No Further Restrictions Need To Be Put On Them.