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Excerpt from The Signalman and His Work The story of how man has wrested from nature its secrets and applied them for the benefit of the human race is an ever-lengthening-out story of the manner in which man has risen from savagery and barbarism to that state of society which we enjoy today and which we term civilization. We have made progress as we have accumulated knowledge, and when we began the distribution of knowledge we accelerated this progress. The fact that there is a certain amount of information in the world becomes of value only when it is made of utmost use. Undoubtedly this was the underlying thought at the recent Convention of our Brotherhood, and the thought most immediately in our minds was that we as an organization would grow and expand and develop in just such proportion as our individual members added to their fund of knowledge of the art of signaling and its practical application. Eighty years ago Hugh Miller, the Scotch stonemason and quarryman, who became a famous geologist, wrote "The Old Red Sandstone," and in this book he said, "And do not let any class get ahead of you in intelligence." The high standard set by the railroad signalmen is very generally recognized. What we did in our action at the Convention in regard to an educational program was with the idea of increasing the knowledge of signal service. 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.