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To Delve Into History Entails, Besides The Grievance Of Hard Work, The Danger That In The Depths One May Lose One’s Scapegoats.

It Is Not Clear To Anyone, Least Of All The Practitioners, How Science And Technology In Their Headlong Course Do Or Should Influence Ethics And Law, Education And Government, Art And Social Philosophy, Religion And The Life Of The Affections. Yet Science Is An All-pervasive Energy, For It Is At Once A Mode Of Thought, A Source Of Strong Emotion, And A Faith As Fanatical As Any In History.

In Any Assembly The Simplest Way To Stop Transacting Business And Split The Ranks Is To Appeal To A Principle.

Machines Are Admirable And Tyrannize Only With The User's Consent. Where, Then, Is The Enemy? Not Where The Machine Gives Relief From Drudgery But Where Human Judgment Abdicates. The Smoothest Machine-made Product Of The Age Is The Organization Man, For Even The Best Organizing Principle Tends To Corrupt, And The Mechanical Principle Corrupts Absolutely.

The Philosophical Implication Of Race-thinking Is That By Offering Us The Mystery Of Heredity As An Explanation, It Diverts Our Attention From The Social And Intellectual Factors That Make Up Personality.