now been fulfilled; and man, who at times dreamt of 
     himself as a little lower than the angels, has submitted to 
     become the servant and the minister of nature. It still 
     remains to be seen whether the same actor can play both 
     parts. 

Whitehead is right in insisting that “we must concentrate on 
the method itself.” It was the Gutenberg method of 
homogeneous segmentation, for which centuries of phonetic 
literacy had prepared the psychological ground, that evoked 
the traits of the modern world. The numerous galaxy of events 
and products of that method of mechanization of handicrafts, 
are merely incidental to the method itself. It is the method of 
the fixed or specialist point of view that insists on repetition as 
the criterion of truth and practicality. Today our science and 
method strive not towards a point of view but to discover how