retirement of the work force from the scene of toil. In a word, 
automation. If this, however, has been the motive behind all of 
our human technologies, it does not follow that we are 
prepared to accept the consequences. It helps to get one’s 
bearings to see the process at work in remote times when work 
meant specialist servitude, and leisure alone meant a life of 
human dignity and involvement of the whole man.

     The print in its clumsy woodcut phase reveals a major 
aspect of language; namely, that words cannot bear sharp 
definition in daily use. When Descartes surveyed the 
philosophical scene at the beginning of the seventeenth 
century, he was appalled at the confusion of tongues and 
began to strive toward a reduction of philosophy to precise 
mathematical form. This striving for an irrelevant precision 
served only to exclude from philosophy most of the questions