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Our besetting danger is faith in machinery, treating means as if they had value in themselves
Drawn from what Matthew Arnold said
What Matthew Arnold actually said
- Matthew Arnold English poet and cultural critic (1822 to 1888)
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.
Where this was said
↗Culture and Anarchy (1869, first edition)gutenberg.org
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