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Page 164
... Benedictine monastery . While the ascetic routines of the monastic orders favored the machine , their rigorous accountancy of time and their careful control of money and goods were progressively passed on to other forms of bureaucratic ...
... Benedictine monastery . While the ascetic routines of the monastic orders favored the machine , their rigorous accountancy of time and their careful control of money and goods were progressively passed on to other forms of bureaucratic ...
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... Benedictine order , which held that ' to labor is to pray ' ; and it had gained institutional support in the medieval guild , which made a whole network of social relationships center in the workshop and its fellowship . Thus work in ...
... Benedictine order , which held that ' to labor is to pray ' ; and it had gained institutional support in the medieval guild , which made a whole network of social relationships center in the workshop and its fellowship . Thus work in ...
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... Benedictine discipline turned work itself into a form of piety . This divorce and isolation of the self from the economic system and the material culture that helped to form it and give it substance was as crucial an error as any made ...
... Benedictine discipline turned work itself into a form of piety . This divorce and isolation of the self from the economic system and the material culture that helped to form it and give it substance was as crucial an error as any made ...
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NEW EXPLORATIONS NEW WORLDS | 3 |
RETURN OF THE SUN GOD | 28 |
THE MECHANIZED WORLD PICTURE | 51 |
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