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assume entire intelligibility. But the novelties of automation,
creating workless and propertyless communities, envelop us in
new uncertainties.
A most luminous passage of A. N. Whitehead’s classic
Science and the Modern World (p. 141) is one that was
discussed previously in another connection.
The greatest invention of the nineteenth century
was the invention of the method of invention. A new
method entered into life. In order to understand our
epoch, we can neglect all the details of change, such as
railways, telegraphs, radios, spinning machines, synthetic
dyes. We must concentrate on the method in itself; that
is the real novelty, which has broken up the foundations
of the old civilization. The prophecy of Francis Bacon has