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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