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nothing of the music that reaches the audience. He gets only
noise.
The result of electric speed-up in industry at large is the
creation of intense sensitivity to the interrelation and
interprocess of the whole, so as to call for ever-new types of
organization and talent. Viewed from the old perspectives of
the machine age, this electric network of plants and processes
seems brittle and tight. In fact, it is not mechanical, and it does
begin to develop the sensitivity and pliability of the human
organism. But it also demands the same varied nutriment and
nursing as the animal organism.
With the instant and complex interprocesses of the
organic form, automated industry also acquires the power of
adaptability to multiple uses. A machine set up for the