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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... immense importance for the later processes of industrializa- tion performed by the new exploration . The organic sciences , zoology , botany , paleontology , with their exhaustive inventories of forms and species have been given a lower ...
... immense importance for the later processes of industrializa- tion performed by the new exploration . The organic sciences , zoology , botany , paleontology , with their exhaustive inventories of forms and species have been given a lower ...
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... immense authority that the astronomical and mechanical world picture exerted — and still exerts - over many of the most able minds . Unfortunately , just as behind the terrestrial exploration stalked de- monic and criminal impulses that ...
... immense authority that the astronomical and mechanical world picture exerted — and still exerts - over many of the most able minds . Unfortunately , just as behind the terrestrial exploration stalked de- monic and criminal impulses that ...
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... immense , still impending total human sacrifice cannot be ap- praised in the rational or scientific terms that those who have created this system favor : it is , I stress again , an essentially religious phenomenon . As such it offers a ...
... immense , still impending total human sacrifice cannot be ap- praised in the rational or scientific terms that those who have created this system favor : it is , I stress again , an essentially religious phenomenon . As such it offers a ...
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