Technics and Civilization

A. N. Whitehead abstract achieve advance agriculture arts automatic basis became become capitalism capitalist civilization classes clock coal complete consumption created culture Deutsches Museum duction economic effect efficiency effort eighteenth century electric elements energy England environment esthetic Europe existence experience exploitation fact factory finally forms function glass habits handicraft horsepower human important improvements increased industry instruments interest invention inventor iron J. A. Hobson labor limited living machine manufacture means mechanical ment merely metal methods miner mining modern technics motion motor movement nature neolithic neotechnic phase nineteenth century object operations organic original paleotechnic period paleotechnic phase perhaps phonograph physical picture possible practical primitive production profit railroad rational régime regions Roger Bacon routine scientific seventeenth century sixteenth century social society standard steam engine TECHNICS AND CIVILIZATION tended textile tion utilitarian utilization Western World whole wood worker