 Faith in machinery is, I said, our besetting danger; often in machinery most absurdly disproportioned to the end which this machinery, if it is to do any good at all, is to serve; but always in machinery, as if it had a value in and for itself.  Blackwood's Magazine - Page 2391918Full view - About this book
 | Inga Bryden - Arts, English - 1998 - 176 pages
...Faith in machinery is, I said, our besetting danger; often in machinery most absurdly cli.sproportioned to the end which this machinery, if it is to do any...machinery? what is population but machinery? what is coal but machinery? what are railroads but machinery? what is wealth but machinery? what are, even,... | |
 | Robert Young, Kah Choon Ban, Robbie B. H. Goh - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1998 - 190 pages
...materialism which is fascinated by the outward shows of industrial society that Arnold parodies thus: [B]ut always in machinery, as if it had a value in...machinery? what is population but machinery? what is coal but machinery? what are railroads but machinery? what is wealth but machinery? what are, even,... | |
 | John E. Booty, Stephen Sykes, Jonathan Knight - Religion - 1998 - 542 pages
...century's obsession with organization and ma-chinery, machinery often seen as an end in itself, 'most absurdly disproportioned to the end which this machinery, if it is to do any good at all, is to serve'. 4 Against this whole tendency—which, we may note, sounds remarkably twentieth-century—Arnold set... | |
 | Rosemary J. Mundhenk, LuAnn McCracken Fletcher - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 502 pages
...attentively and dispassionately. Faith in machinery is, I said, our besetting danger; often in machinery most absurdly disproportioned to the end which this machinery,...machinery? what is population but machinery? what is coal but machinery? what arc railroads but machinery? what is wealth but machinery? what are, even,... | |
 | Bethan Marshall - Education - 2000 - 230 pages
...beserting danger; often in machinety most absurdly disproportioned to the end which this machinety, if it is to do any good at all, is to serve; but always in machinety, as if it had a value in and fot itself. (Arnold, 1948: 48) His frustration is clear. What... | |
 | Bethan Marshall - English philology - 2000 - 232 pages
...around him, he wrote: Faith in machinery is, I said, our besetting danger; often in machinery most absurdly disproportioned to the end which this machinery,...machinery, as if it had a value in and for itself. (Arnold, 1948: 48) His frustration is clear. What is interesting is the way he applied this mistrust... | |
 | John A. Weaver - Education - 2001 - 280 pages
...machinery, Arnold t 1 869. 1994) said: Faith in machinery is our besetting danger; often in machinery most absurdly disproportioned to the end, which this machinery, if it is to do am good at alL is to serve; hut always in machinery, as if it had a value in and for itself. What is... | |
 | Stephen Duncombe - Literary Collections - 2002 - 466 pages
...attentively and dispassionately. Faith in machinery is, I said, our besetting danger; often in machinery most absurdly disproportioned to the end which this machinery,...machinery? What is population but machinery? What is coal but machinery? What are railroads but machinery? What is wealth but machinery? What are religious... | |
 | Joseph Bizup - Business & Economics - 2003 - 260 pages
...England's national values: Faith in machinery is, I said, our besetting danger; often in machinery most absurdly disproportioned to the end which this machinery,...machinery? what is population but machinery? what is coal but machinery? what are railroads but machinery? what is wealth but machinery? what are, even,... | |
 | Diane Ravitch, Michael Ravitch - Literary Collections - 2006 - 512 pages
...attentively and dispassionately. Faith in machinery is, I said, our besetting danger; often in machinery most absurdly disproportioned to the end which this machinery,...machinery? what is population but machinery? what is coal but machinery? what are railroads but machinery? what is wealth but machinery? what are religious... | |
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