If the world would only build temples to Machinery in the abstract

If the world would only build temples to Machinery in the abstract then everything would be perfect. The painter and sculptor would have plenty to do, and could, in complete peace and suitably honored, pursue their trade without further trouble. – Percy Wynham Lewis

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Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor. – Karl Marx

I find it hard to believe that the machine would go into the creative artists hand even were that magic hand in true place. It has been too far exploited by industrialism and science at expense to art and true religion. – Frank Lloyd Wright

The vast material displacements the machine has made in our physical environment are perhaps in the long run less important than its spiritual contributions to our culture. – Lewis Mumford

For man is not the creature and product of Mechanism; but, in a far truer sense, its creator and producer. – Thomas Carlyle

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