Our Machine Civilization
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Even less sure can we be that this last century which has added so tremendously to our mechanical environment has brought a corresponding improvement in human capacity. In fact we know that it is not true. Men were no less able in the days of Washington and Hamilton, and Channing and Fox than they are to- day. We have come into our new inheritance with no greater abilities than our grandfathers had. The difference between the Harvard Class. Of 1822 and the Wellesley Class of 1922 lies not in th...eir respective capacities, but in the loads w^hich those capacities must bear.
In this field of government, therefore, our task is to control complex functions like subways and street railroad financing with the same intelligence that was adapted to the spade and the blacksmith shop. The machinery of our environment is increasing in complexity, but the tools of control remain largely the same.
And how faulty those tools may be we are only just now beginning to realize. We have always 12 thought of the American people — our own people — as being peculiarly intelligent.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Even less sure can we be that this last century which has added so tremendously to our mechanical environment has brought a corresponding improvement in human capacity. In fact we know that it is not true. Men were no less able in the days of Washington and Hamilton, and Channing and Fox than they are to- day. We have come into our new inheritance with no greater abilities than our grandfathers had. The difference between the Harvard Class. Of 1822 and the Wellesley Class of 1922 lies not in th...eir respective capacities, but in the loads w^hich those capacities must bear.
In this field of government, therefore, our task is to control complex functions like subways and street railroad financing with the same intelligence that was adapted to the spade and the blacksmith shop. The machinery of our environment is increasing in complexity, but the tools of control remain largely the same.
And how faulty those tools may be we are only just now beginning to realize. We have always 12 thought of the American people — our own people — as being peculiarly intelligent.
What to read after Our Machine Civilization?
You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Raymond B Raymond Blaine Fosdick to read onlineMoreLess
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