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than heretofore . . .
The scientific knowledge needed for the use of gunpowder
and the boring of cannon appeared to Donne as “the light of
reason.” He failed to notice another advance in the same
technology that hastened and extended the scope of human
slaughter. It is referred to by John U. Nef in War and Human
Progress :
The gradual abandonment of armor as a part of the
equipment of soldiers during the seventeenth century
freed some metal supplies for the manufacture of
firearms and missiles.
It is easy to discover in this a seamless web of interwoven
events when we turn to look at the psychic and social