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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... single mind could master every part of it . This is both a false compliment to Leonardo and a gratuitous disparagement of the cultural resources available . For the fact is that no culture , at least since the invention of writing , has ...
... single mind could master every part of it . This is both a false compliment to Leonardo and a gratuitous disparagement of the cultural resources available . For the fact is that no culture , at least since the invention of writing , has ...
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... single ideology , no single technology , no single type of personality has ever prevailed over the entire planet . Man has never yet been homogenized . What is true for human habitats and human cultures holds equally for man's historic ...
... single ideology , no single technology , no single type of personality has ever prevailed over the entire planet . Man has never yet been homogenized . What is true for human habitats and human cultures holds equally for man's historic ...
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... single ' act of God . ' This new version of Genesis , it became plain , was not only truer to life , but it proved quite as miraculous as any single act of creation . The greatest lesson of the new natural history was the lesson of ...
... single ' act of God . ' This new version of Genesis , it became plain , was not only truer to life , but it proved quite as miraculous as any single act of creation . The greatest lesson of the new natural history was the lesson of ...
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