consequences of the technological extensions of man.

     Back in the l920s King Amanullah seems to have put his 
finger on this web when he said, after firing off a torpedo:
     “I feel half an Englishman already.”
     The same sense of the relentlessly interwoven texture of 
human fate was touched by the schoolboy who said:
      “Dad, I hate war.”
      “Why, son?”
      “Because war makes history, and I hate history.”

     The techniques developed over the centuries for drilling 
gun-barrels provided the means that made possible the steam 
engine. The piston shaft and the gun presented the same 
problems in boring hard steel. Earlier, it had been the lineal 
stress of perspective that had channelled perception in paths