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branch of these sciences. Its place is elsewhere in the ranks
of scientific disciplines.’
It will seem more and more strange to us why men have
chosen to know so little about matters about which they have
done so much. Alexander Pope may have noticed this matter
ironically when he wrote:
One science only will one genius fit
So vast is art, so narrow human wit.
For he well knew that this was the formula for the Tower of
Babel. At any rate, with the Gutenberg technology we move
into the age of the take-off of the machine. The principle of
segmentation of actions and functions and roles became
systematically applicable wherever desired. Basically it is the