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In this connection it has often been said that the far-
reaching changes in our environment and in our way of
life wrought by this technical age have also changed
dangerously our ways of thinking, and that here lie the
roots of the crises which have shaken our times and
which, for instance, are also expressed in modern art.
True, this objection is much older than modern
technology and science, the use of implements going
back to man’s earliest beginnings. Thus, two and a half
thousand years ago, the Chinese sage Chuang-Tzu spoke
of the danger of the machine when he said:
‘As Tzu-Gung was travelling through the regions
north of the river Han, he saw an old man working in his
vegetable garden. He had dug an irrigation ditch. The man
would descend into the well, fetch up a vessel of water in