as does the technology of writing and printing. Not only work, 
but also eating and sleeping, came to accommodate 
themselves to the clock rather than to organic needs. As the 
pattern of arbitrary and uniform measurement of time 
extended itself across society, even clothing began to undergo 
annual alteration in a way convenient for industry. At that 
point, of course, mechanical measurement of time as a 
principle of applied knowledge joined forces with printing and 
assembly line as means of uniform fragmentation of processes.

     The most integral and involving time sense imaginable is 
that expressed in the Chinese and Japanese cultures. Until the 
coming of the missionaries in the seventeenth century, and the 
introduction of the mechanical clocks, the Chinese and 
Japanese had for thousands of years measured time by 
graduations of incense. Not only the hours and days, but the