energy. Both the latter, I could see, were fundamental assets
that defied exhaustion in apparent universe. Technology was
a basic resource that improved, or self-multiplied, with each
repeated opportunity of its application. I could see from all this
fundamental wealth augmentation -- without resource depletion
-that there was arising an important reorientation of mankind,
from the role of an inherent "failure," as erroneously reasoned
by Malthus, and erroneously accepted by the bootstrap-anchored
custodians of civilization's processes, to a new role for mankind,
that of an inherent success.

But I could also see that this magnificent reorientation was
occurring only through knowledgeful, and experience-rich com-
petence in teleologic designs, integrating transcendentally man's
conscious planning, but by virtue of physical laws, as an organic
workable complex -- industrialization.

Machines of the cotton mill in my 1913-1914 experience
were as yet primarily imported by the Americas. The importa-
tions were mostly from England ( Dobson and Barlow) but they
were also brought in from France (Combers). The French
machinery was of far better metallurgy and engineering refine-
ment. The cotton mill machinery was shipped from Europe
to America in cases of completely disassembled parts. Frequently
the English machine parts were damaged or broken in transit,
and it became my special task to find ways of obtaining replace-
ment parts in a hurry within the small industrial town of Sher-
brooke, Quebec. This involved me in a self-tutored course of
engineering exploration in rediscovering the original designer's
strategy of determination of the respective functions and stresses
of each of the parts, which in turn had occasioned their appro-
priate dimensioning, and metallurgical specifying.

I also had to rediscover the economic considerations and pro-
duction strategies originally used in determining the forming
procedures for final realization of the parts. This experience
involved, too, the discovery of the whereabouts of local resources
for reproducing such items. It was an all-important phase in
my life, when I came to know shop foremen, molders, machinists
and their respective tools, and the beginnings of metallurgical

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