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Excerpt from Civil Engineering as Applied in Construction
The civil engineer, by extending railways through undeveloped or barbarous countries, becomes the pioneer of progress and civilization; and he is largely instrumental in developing the intercourse and trade of communities and nations, by improving rivers, and constructing roads, railways, canals, harbours, and docks. Moreover, the civil engineer, by carrying out irrigation works in hot, dry countries, converts arid regions into fertile plains, thereby greatly increasing the productiveness of these districts, and averting the famines resulting from a deficiency in rainfall. Furthermore, by providing an ample supply of good water, and efficient sanitary arrangements, he is enabled to preserve from ravaging epidemics and untimely death the vast populations which, in recent years, have been crowding more and more into cities and towns.
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