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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... cultures holds equally for man's historic affiliations . Just as no single region or culture can possibly offer fulfillment of all the potentialities for human development , so no single generation can embody these potentialities . And ...
... cultures holds equally for man's historic affiliations . Just as no single region or culture can possibly offer fulfillment of all the potentialities for human development , so no single generation can embody these potentialities . And ...
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... cultural inheritance is partly re - programmed from generation to generation , from culture to culture , and is modified even from hour to hour by the plans and acts of individual minds , genetic control might program man out of ...
... cultural inheritance is partly re - programmed from generation to generation , from culture to culture , and is modified even from hour to hour by the plans and acts of individual minds , genetic control might program man out of ...
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... Cultural dissolution , 295 Cultural forms , 417 Cultural inheritance , programming of , 292 Cultural interchanges , contribution of , to technics , 18 Cultural lag , 223 Cultural prospects , emerging , 404 Cultural reservoir , importance of ...
... Cultural dissolution , 295 Cultural forms , 417 Cultural inheritance , programming of , 292 Cultural interchanges , contribution of , to technics , 18 Cultural lag , 223 Cultural prospects , emerging , 404 Cultural reservoir , importance of ...
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