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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... military preoccupations rather than those of the current industrial arts , with their cut - and - try methods ; and this influence was so universal that the roles of the military , the civil , and the mechanical engineer were at first ...
... military preoccupations rather than those of the current industrial arts , with their cut - and - try methods ; and this influence was so universal that the roles of the military , the civil , and the mechanical engineer were at first ...
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... military spirit of brutal drill and mindless obedience was carried into the schools and universities , where , as had been proved during the First World War , it had never been entirely absent since Fichte's day . In short , the Germans ...
... military spirit of brutal drill and mindless obedience was carried into the schools and universities , where , as had been proved during the First World War , it had never been entirely absent since Fichte's day . In short , the Germans ...
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... military use for , 259 ; modernization of , 246 ; nature of , 240 ; new components of , 274 ; properties of , 241 ; reassemblage of , 244 ; Russian , 246-248 , 256-257 , 270 , 271 , 272 , 308 ; scientific contribu- tion to , 248 ...
... military use for , 259 ; modernization of , 246 ; nature of , 240 ; new components of , 274 ; properties of , 241 ; reassemblage of , 244 ; Russian , 246-248 , 256-257 , 270 , 271 , 272 , 308 ; scientific contribu- tion to , 248 ...
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