Understanding McLuhan/Understanding McLuhan (1996)(Voyager)[Mac-PC].iso/pc/mcluhan.dxr/06579_Field_TCUM T144.txt

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          Then the gardener stood up, looked at him and said,
     “And what would that be?”
          Tsu-Gung replied, “You take a wooden lever,
     weighted at the back and light in front. In this way you
     can bring up water so quickly that it just gushes out. This
     is called a draw-well.”
          Then anger rose up in the old man’s face, and he
     said, “I have heard my teacher say that whoever uses
     machines does all his work like a machine. He who does
     his work like a machine grows a heart like a machine, and
     he who carries the heart of a machine in his breast loses
     his simplicity. He who has lost his simplicity becomes
     unsure in the strivings of his soul Uncertainty in the
     strivings of the soul is something which does not agree
     with honest sense. It is not that I do not know of such
     things; I am ashamed to use them.”