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...Americans served and shielded by machines at every turn, each silent switch and powerless push button was a taunt. Two of modern technology's paramount deities???the dynamo and the digital computer?had defected simultaneously. Yet Northeasterners wasted little time lamenting their betrayal by the machine. Instead, with a high sense of shared adventure, they set about the unfamiliar task of using legs and arms to help themselves and their fellow men. If in the process the 20th century American learned belatedly to mistrust the complex mechanics by which he lives, he also acquired new faith in his humanity...
...arises from a weakness of mind and therefore does not appertain to the use of reason/' But it was soon clear that reason alone could not answer all man's questions, could not provide what he desperately needs: order and purpose in the universe. And so man invented substitute deities???History, the State, Environment. But in the end all these only led back to the" nearly unbearable message that man is alone in a meaningless cosmos, subject only to the blind forces of evolution and responsible only to himself. As Kirilov puts it in Dostoevsky's The Possessed: "If there...
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