Industrial man--a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform veloc...ity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I perceive in the common train of my thoughts a natural and uninterrupted sequence, each implying the next, or, if interruption oc...curs, it is occasioned by a new object being presented to my senses. But a steep, and sudden, and by these means unaccountable transition is that from a comparatively narrow and partial, what is called common-sense view of things, to an infinitely expanded and liberating one, from seeing things as men describe them, to seeing them as men cannot describe them. This implies a sense which is not common, but rare in the wisest man's experience; which is sensible or sentient of more than common.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The history of work has been, in part, the history of the worker's body. Production depended on what the body could accomplish wit...h strength and skill. Techniques that improve output have been driven by a general desire to decrease the pain of labor as well as by employers' intentions to escape dependency upon that knowledge which only the sentient laboring body could provide.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »