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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... ideas , in order to remain alive , must be re - thought and re - tested by fresh experience from generation to generation . The next stage , toward a wider socialization of the idea , may be called ' incorporation ' : at last the ...
... ideas , in order to remain alive , must be re - thought and re - tested by fresh experience from generation to generation . The next stage , toward a wider socialization of the idea , may be called ' incorporation ' : at last the ...
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... idea loses some of its original purity , if it does not in fact turn into its own antithesis through the very act of materialization . Thus when the Roman state was converted to Christianity under Constantine , the Christian Church was ...
... idea loses some of its original purity , if it does not in fact turn into its own antithesis through the very act of materialization . Thus when the Roman state was converted to Christianity under Constantine , the Christian Church was ...
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... idea has been completely embodied , we can recognize that it had left no place for man . He is reduced to a standardized servo - mechanism : a left - over part from a more organic world . If ' Technics and Civilization ' and ' The Myth ...
... idea has been completely embodied , we can recognize that it had left no place for man . He is reduced to a standardized servo - mechanism : a left - over part from a more organic world . If ' Technics and Civilization ' and ' The Myth ...
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