The Myth of the Machine: The pentagon of powerHarcourt, Brace & World, 1970 - Technology and civilization |
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... Francis Bacon in his attempt earlier , and with much poorer equipment , to " take all knowledge for his province . " This is all the more striking because they shared the same utilitarian principles and were buoyed up by the same hopes ...
... Francis Bacon in his attempt earlier , and with much poorer equipment , to " take all knowledge for his province . " This is all the more striking because they shared the same utilitarian principles and were buoyed up by the same hopes ...
Page 107
... Francis Bacon , for perhaps his most original contribution to the enlarge- ment of the province of science was his understanding of its great future role in transforming the material conditions of life . But I am sure that some of the ...
... Francis Bacon , for perhaps his most original contribution to the enlarge- ment of the province of science was his understanding of its great future role in transforming the material conditions of life . But I am sure that some of the ...
Page 116
... Francis Bacon , his namesake Roger , a Franciscan monk , had been stirred by the same prospects ; and his chief scientific treatise , appropri- ately , was one on optics . There is no proof that Francis Bacon had read the works of his ...
... Francis Bacon , his namesake Roger , a Franciscan monk , had been stirred by the same prospects ; and his chief scientific treatise , appropri- ately , was one on optics . There is no proof that Francis Bacon had read the works of his ...
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CONTENTS | 3 |
THE STORY OF UTOPIAS 1922 | 7 |
THE GOLDEN DAY 1926 | 46 |
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