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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... perhaps made him readier to extend the scientific method to every department of life . Bacon deserves a special place , not for any fresh scientific discoveries he made or even contributed to , but for outlining an ideal institutional ...
... perhaps made him readier to extend the scientific method to every department of life . Bacon deserves a special place , not for any fresh scientific discoveries he made or even contributed to , but for outlining an ideal institutional ...
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... perhaps these reluctances made him the more willing to leave his work tentative and incomplete . Success might have come easily through specialization and publication , but at the price of forgetting wholeness , of becoming crippled and ...
... perhaps these reluctances made him the more willing to leave his work tentative and incomplete . Success might have come easily through specialization and publication , but at the price of forgetting wholeness , of becoming crippled and ...
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... perhaps to break with it entirely - as an adoles- cent must break with his parents to become mature enough to take from his elders eventually what will further his own growth . For perhaps the first time the future took possession of ...
... perhaps to break with it entirely - as an adoles- cent must break with his parents to become mature enough to take from his elders eventually what will further his own growth . For perhaps the first time the future took possession of ...
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