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nonliterate cultures. Just as work began with the division of
labor, duration begins with the division of time, and especially
with those subdivisions by which mechanical clocks impose
uniform succession on the time sense.
As a piece of technology, the clock is a machine that
produces uniform seconds, minutes, and hours on an
assembly-line pattern. Processed in this uniform way, time is
separated from the rhythms of human experience. The
mechanical clock, in short, helps to create the image of a
numerically quantified and mechanically powered universe. It
was in the world of the medieval monasteries, with their need
for a rule and for synchronized order to guide communal life,
that the clock got started on its modern developments. Time
measured not by the uniqueness of private experience but by
abstract uniform units gradually pervades all sense life, much