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Page 210
... whole community , then a system that shaped each specialized part for the more efficient performance of his particular func- tion would in the end perform with the efficiency of a machine . On the surface , the concept of utopia implied ...
... whole community , then a system that shaped each specialized part for the more efficient performance of his particular func- tion would in the end perform with the efficiency of a machine . On the surface , the concept of utopia implied ...
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... whole had only begun to coalesce . The notion that mechanical progress was in itself a liberating influence had remained unchallenged , on the whole , throughout the nineteenth cen- tury , except by ' romantics ' like Delacroix , Ruskin ...
... whole had only begun to coalesce . The notion that mechanical progress was in itself a liberating influence had remained unchallenged , on the whole , throughout the nineteenth cen- tury , except by ' romantics ' like Delacroix , Ruskin ...
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... whole fabric of historic civilization and begin all over again on an entirely fresh foundation . Unfortunately that ' fresh ' foundation , as envisaged by such revolutionary groups , includes the forms of mass communication , mass ...
... whole fabric of historic civilization and begin all over again on an entirely fresh foundation . Unfortunately that ' fresh ' foundation , as envisaged by such revolutionary groups , includes the forms of mass communication , mass ...
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NEW EXPLORATIONS NEW WORLDS | 3 |
RETURN OF THE SUN GOD | 28 |
THE MECHANIZED WORLD PICTURE | 51 |
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