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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... material domicile and choose a place in which to dwell with the blessed angels . " Much of this description is of course factual ; but Kepler's rhetoric is the language of religious adoration , perfervid , exalted . And it does not ...
... material domicile and choose a place in which to dwell with the blessed angels . " Much of this description is of course factual ; but Kepler's rhetoric is the language of religious adoration , perfervid , exalted . And it does not ...
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... material goods , of environmental control ; that quantitative productivity is an end in itself , and that every means should be used to further expansion . This was a defensible position in the seventeenth century , when an economy of ...
... material goods , of environmental control ; that quantitative productivity is an end in itself , and that every means should be used to further expansion . This was a defensible position in the seventeenth century , when an economy of ...
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... material that needs to be processed by them , to be ennobled by their touch . But life is never a material , a sub- stance to be molded . If you want to know , life is the principle of self- renewal , it is constantly renewing and ...
... material that needs to be processed by them , to be ennobled by their touch . But life is never a material , a sub- stance to be molded . If you want to know , life is the principle of self- renewal , it is constantly renewing and ...
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