over-all awareness of forms suggests to him that we would do 
well to stand aside from most of them. He points out that 
technical change alters not only habits of life, but patterns of 
thought and valuation, citing with approval the outlook of the 
Chinese sage:

          As Tzu-Gung was travelling through the regions 
     north of the river Han, he saw an old man working in his 
     vegetable garden. He had dug an irrigation ditch. The man 
     would descend into a well, fetch up a vessel of water in 
     his arms and pour it out into the ditch. While his efforts 
     were tremendous the results appeared to be very meagre.
          Tzu-Gung said, “There is a way whereby you can 
     irrigate a hundred ditches in one day, and whereby you 
     can do much with little effort. Would you not like to hear 
     of it?”