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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... contemporary society - a society now debilitated by its lack of engrossing manual work , and its increasing resistance to active work of any kind . Part of Morris ' life was transfigured in his idyllic utopia , ' News from Nowhere ...
... contemporary society - a society now debilitated by its lack of engrossing manual work , and its increasing resistance to active work of any kind . Part of Morris ' life was transfigured in his idyllic utopia , ' News from Nowhere ...
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... contemporary samples : mere reminders of a much huger mass of purposeful irrationality , paranoid inflation , cultivated idiocy , and mindless destruction . The order in which the evidence is presented is as random as the events ...
... contemporary samples : mere reminders of a much huger mass of purposeful irrationality , paranoid inflation , cultivated idiocy , and mindless destruction . The order in which the evidence is presented is as random as the events ...
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... contemporary , 431 Moral evaluation , automation's resistance to , 184 Moral standards , abandonment of , by civilized nations , 233 Moral values , disruption of , 370 Morality , basic , 352 More , Thomas , 209 Morgan , Arthur , 209 ...
... contemporary , 431 Moral evaluation , automation's resistance to , 184 Moral standards , abandonment of , by civilized nations , 233 Moral values , disruption of , 370 Morality , basic , 352 More , Thomas , 209 Morgan , Arthur , 209 ...
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