The Myth of the Machine: The pentagon of powerHarcourt, Brace & World, 1970 - Technology and civilization |
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... taken the trouble to check by experiment . Moreover to regard him as an infallible authority on all matters of science was a lazy vice of official theological thought . Reprehensibly , in the formulation of medieval science , the ...
... taken the trouble to check by experiment . Moreover to regard him as an infallible authority on all matters of science was a lazy vice of official theological thought . Reprehensibly , in the formulation of medieval science , the ...
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... taken as an attack on science , scholarship , or the many exquisite feats of electronic and cybernetic technology . No one but an idiot would belittle the immense practical benefits and the exhilarating prospects for the human spirit ...
... taken as an attack on science , scholarship , or the many exquisite feats of electronic and cybernetic technology . No one but an idiot would belittle the immense practical benefits and the exhilarating prospects for the human spirit ...
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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 ...
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CONTENTS | 3 |
THE STORY OF UTOPIAS 1922 | 7 |
THE GOLDEN DAY 1926 | 46 |
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