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Lewis Mumford. tion could spread swiftly because the initial step in mechanization, the creation of perfectly standardized hand-lettering, had long been achieved in the monastery, where a deliberately mechanized habit of life laid the ...
Lewis Mumford. tion could spread swiftly because the initial step in mechanization, the creation of perfectly standardized hand-lettering, had long been achieved in the monastery, where a deliberately mechanized habit of life laid the ...
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Lewis Mumford. tion of income, duties, sacrifices, opportunities, seems so palpably just and 'democratic,' so unmenacing, so beneficial, that the one element missing in this scheme escapes us because we are already so close to having ...
Lewis Mumford. tion of income, duties, sacrifices, opportunities, seems so palpably just and 'democratic,' so unmenacing, so beneficial, that the one element missing in this scheme escapes us because we are already so close to having ...
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... tion, we owe it a debt. Plenitude on such a solitary, meager, unadventurous basis too easily sinks into torpid penury and stupefication. Thoreau tested out that possibility for himself during his two years at Walden: but he realized ...
... tion, we owe it a debt. Plenitude on such a solitary, meager, unadventurous basis too easily sinks into torpid penury and stupefication. Thoreau tested out that possibility for himself during his two years at Walden: but he realized ...
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NEW EXPLORATIONS NEW WORLDS | 3 |
RETURN OF THE SUN GOD | 28 |
THE MECHANIZED WORLD PICTURE | 51 |
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