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... Existence But progress had an economic side : at bottom it was little less than an elaborate rationalizing of the dominant economic conditions . For Progress was possible only through increased production : pro- duction grew in volume ...
... Existence But progress had an economic side : at bottom it was little less than an elaborate rationalizing of the dominant economic conditions . For Progress was possible only through increased production : pro- duction grew in volume ...
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... existence - namely , the energies that were focussed in science and technics and in the mass of new machine - workers themselves . The romantic movement was retrospective , walled - in , sentimental : in a word , regressive . It ...
... existence - namely , the energies that were focussed in science and technics and in the mass of new machine - workers themselves . The romantic movement was retrospective , walled - in , sentimental : in a word , regressive . It ...
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... existence of substitute industries sometimes postpones the individual but does not avert the collective day of reckoning . Lacking the power to buy the necessaries of life for themselves , the plight of the dis- placed workers reacts ...
... existence of substitute industries sometimes postpones the individual but does not avert the collective day of reckoning . Lacking the power to buy the necessaries of life for themselves , the plight of the dis- placed workers reacts ...
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OBJECTIVES CONTENTS | xii |
Machines Utilities and The Machine | xii |
The Monastery and the Clock | xii |
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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