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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... taken in the nineteenth century , even without the stimulus of war and the deliberate invention of the atom bomb . But it would probably have taken more than a century to get to the same point that was reached in less than a decade ...
... taken in the nineteenth century , even without the stimulus of war and the deliberate invention of the atom bomb . But it would probably have taken more than a century to get to the same point that was reached in less than a decade ...
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... taken a more rational course . What has been happening so swiftly during the last half century was anticipated at a much earlier moment by Dostoevsky in ' The Pos- sessed , ' in ' Crime and Punishment , ' in his scarifyingly prophetic ...
... taken a more rational course . What has been happening so swiftly during the last half century was anticipated at a much earlier moment by Dostoevsky in ' The Pos- sessed , ' in ' Crime and Punishment , ' in his scarifyingly prophetic ...
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... taken no account of and had done nothing to alleviate ? The fact that this revolt has taken place within the once anti - liberal Catholic Church , and even more surprisingly among the Bishops and within the monastic orders , indicates ...
... taken no account of and had done nothing to alleviate ? The fact that this revolt has taken place within the once anti - liberal Catholic Church , and even more surprisingly among the Bishops and within the monastic orders , indicates ...
Contents
NEW EXPLORATIONS NEW WORLDS | 3 |
RETURN OF THE SUN GOD | 28 |
THE MECHANIZED WORLD PICTURE | 51 |
Copyright | |
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