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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... environment , exploring every wood , field , and riverbank around Concord , he furthered his family business ... environment cut solely to the measure of the machine . This ideology gave primacy to the denatured and dehumanized ...
... environment , exploring every wood , field , and riverbank around Concord , he furthered his family business ... environment cut solely to the measure of the machine . This ideology gave primacy to the denatured and dehumanized ...
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... environment itself : partly this has been effected , as already noted , by re - enforcing conformity with tangible ... environment , human and natural - an environment full of difficulties , temptations , hard choices , challenges ...
... environment itself : partly this has been effected , as already noted , by re - enforcing conformity with tangible ... environment , human and natural - an environment full of difficulties , temptations , hard choices , challenges ...
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... environment ; and even in that environment he was more aware of the edibility of plants and the activities of birds and animals than he was of purely physical manifestations of nature , except when they occurred violently , as in storms ...
... environment ; and even in that environment he was more aware of the edibility of plants and the activities of birds and animals than he was of purely physical manifestations of nature , except when they occurred violently , as in storms ...
Contents
NEW EXPLORATIONS NEW WORLDS | 3 |
RETURN OF THE SUN GOD | 28 |
THE MECHANIZED WORLD PICTURE | 51 |
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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