The Myth of the Machine, Volume 2Shows that man himself has from the beginning been and still is the central fact of human life today. |
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... Henry Adams , who saw the import of this change well before there was an adequate history in either department . More than half a century ago , he perceived that there had been a constant increase in energy and an acceler- ated use from ...
... Henry Adams , who saw the import of this change well before there was an adequate history in either department . More than half a century ago , he perceived that there had been a constant increase in energy and an acceler- ated use from ...
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... Henry Adams sought scientific aid for his interpretation , he was unable to enlist it : so unfortunately , in search of some sort of theoretic scaffolding , he attached his observations to a quite irrelevant physical prin- ciple ...
... Henry Adams sought scientific aid for his interpretation , he was unable to enlist it : so unfortunately , in search of some sort of theoretic scaffolding , he attached his observations to a quite irrelevant physical prin- ciple ...
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... Adams was not at home in a world where human intentions counted and human actions , though quantitatively insignificant , might sometimes , as J. Clerk Maxwell believed , be decisive . But if Henry Adams failed to give an adequate ...
... Adams was not at home in a world where human intentions counted and human actions , though quantitatively insignificant , might sometimes , as J. Clerk Maxwell believed , be decisive . But if Henry Adams failed to give an adequate ...
Contents
NEW EXPLORATIONS NEW WORLDS | 3 |
RETURN OF THE SUN GOD | 28 |
THE MECHANIZED WORLD PICTURE | 51 |
Copyright | |
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abstract accepted achieved activities actually already ancient authority automatic automation became become beginning brought century civilization collective communication complex continued culture demands Descartes destruction direct economy effect effort energy environment equally established existence experience exploration fact final forces functions further future give human idea improvements increase industrial institutions intelligence invention knowledge later least less limited living machine man's mass material means mechanical megamachine megatechnics merely method military mind mode moral nature necessary never objective observed once operation organic original past perhaps physical possible power system practical present production progress proved reality remained result scientific scientists seemed sense single social society space subjective success sufficient symbolic taken technical thought tion turn ultimate United universal whole world picture York