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... routine . No less notorious than the slatternly disorder of the mining town are the drinking and gambling that go on in it : a necessary compensation for the daily toil . Released from his routine , the miner takes a chance at cards or ...
... routine . No less notorious than the slatternly disorder of the mining town are the drinking and gambling that go on in it : a necessary compensation for the daily toil . Released from his routine , the miner takes a chance at cards or ...
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... Routine Let the reader examine for himself the part played by mechanical routine and mechanical apparatus in his day , from the alarm - clock that wakes him to the radio program that puts him to sleep . Instead of adding to his burden ...
... Routine Let the reader examine for himself the part played by mechanical routine and mechanical apparatus in his day , from the alarm - clock that wakes him to the radio program that puts him to sleep . Instead of adding to his burden ...
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... routine and by mechanical instruments will again diminish . Our mechanical civilization , contrary to the assumption of those who worship its external power the better to conceal their own feeling of impotence , is not an absolute . All ...
... routine and by mechanical instruments will again diminish . Our mechanical civilization , contrary to the assumption of those who worship its external power the better to conceal their own feeling of impotence , is not an absolute . All ...
Table des matières
CULTURAL PREPARATION | 9 |
AGENTS OF MECHANIZATION | 60 |
THE EOTECHNIC PHASE | 107 |
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