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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Records of a Family of Engineers by Robert Louis Stevenson: it should form part of the outfit of an engineer; and not
content with keeping an encyclopaedic diary himself, he would
fain have set all his sons to work continuing and extending
it. They were more happily inspired. My father's engineering
pocket-book was not a bulky volume; with its store of pregnant
notes and vital formulas, it served him through life, and was
not yet filled when he came to die. As for Robert Stevenson
and the Travelling Diary, I should be ungrateful to complain,
for it has supplied me with many lively traits for this and
subsequent chapters; but I must still remember much of the
period of my study there as a sojourn in the Valley of the
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