The Myth of the Machine: The pentagon of powerHarcourt, Brace & World, 1970 - Technology and civilization |
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... idea would be doomed unless similar impulses were beginning to find a corporeal form in thousands of other personalities : it is only by this general readiness , in fact , that the formative idea can imprint itself , by direct contact ...
... idea would be doomed unless similar impulses were beginning to find a corporeal form in thousands of other personalities : it is only by this general readiness , in fact , that the formative idea can imprint itself , by direct contact ...
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... idea loses some of its original purity , if it does not in fact turn into its own antithesis through the very act of materialization . Thus when the Roman state was converted to Christianity under Constantine , the Christian Church was ...
... idea loses some of its original purity , if it does not in fact turn into its own antithesis through the very act of materialization . Thus when the Roman state was converted to Christianity under Constantine , the Christian Church was ...
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... idea , starts at just the opposite end by attacking the visible structures and organizations which , so long as they remain in good working order , allow no place for a new idea to take hold . The path of etherialization , then , is ...
... idea , starts at just the opposite end by attacking the visible structures and organizations which , so long as they remain in good working order , allow no place for a new idea to take hold . The path of etherialization , then , is ...
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CONTENTS | 3 |
THE STORY OF UTOPIAS 1922 | 7 |
THE GOLDEN DAY 1926 | 46 |
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