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Excerpt from Social Decay and Regeneration
Some fifteen years 'ago a brilliant young American, Gerald Stanley Lee, wrote as a sort of Introduction to the Twentieth Century a book called The Voice of the Machines. It was one long paean of joy, infused with much genuine poetic feeling. Man is a machine and the creator of machines. He is turning all life into machinery; modern religion is a machine; education is a machine; government is a machine; trade is a machine; society, literature, journalism, art - all are machines. There is nothing in our modern world that we can do or have or hope to have which is not bound up with machinery. It is in machinery that we must seek for poetry and for beauty and for the Infinite. Those persons who still fail to see this are blind, even already dead; they do not belong to our time.
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Some fifteen years 'ago a brilliant young American, Gerald Stanley Lee, wrote as a sort of Introduction to the Twentieth Century a book called The Voice of the Machines. It was one long paean of joy, infused with much genuine poetic feeling. Man is a machine and the creator of machines. He is turning all life into machinery; modern religion is a machine; education is a machine; government is a machine; trade is a machine; society, literature, journalism, art - all are machines. There is nothing in our modern world that we can do or have or hope to have which is not bound up with machinery. It is in machinery that we must seek for poetry and for beauty and for the Infinite. Those persons who still fail to see this are blind, even already dead; they do not belong to our time.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Publisher - Forgotten Books
Author(s) - R. Austin Freeman
Hardback
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ISBN - 9780266290230
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 2.3 cm
Page Count - 371
Paperback
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ISBN - 9781331921165
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 2 cm
Page Count - 373
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