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... rational forms of space other than the form described by Euclid , mankind at large had acted on this premise . Like the Englishman in France who thought that bread was the right name for le pain each culture believes that every other ...
... rational forms of space other than the form described by Euclid , mankind at large had acted on this premise . Like the Englishman in France who thought that bread was the right name for le pain each culture believes that every other ...
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... rational argument nor rational cooperation is possible . Moreover , matters that lie outside this verification in terms of fact have for the modern mind a lower order of reality , no matter how great the presumption , how strong the ...
... rational argument nor rational cooperation is possible . Moreover , matters that lie outside this verification in terms of fact have for the modern mind a lower order of reality , no matter how great the presumption , how strong the ...
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... rational organi- zation , social control , physiological and psychological understanding . In the first case , it relies upon the external exercise of power in its political relations : indeed , it prides itself upon surmounting the ...
... rational organi- zation , social control , physiological and psychological understanding . In the first case , it relies upon the external exercise of power in its political relations : indeed , it prides itself upon surmounting the ...
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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