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now been fulfilled; and man, who at times dreamt of
himself as a little lower than the angels, has submitted to
become the servant and the minister of nature. It still
remains to be seen whether the same actor can play both
parts.
Whitehead is right in insisting that “we must concentrate on
the method itself.” It was the Gutenberg method of
homogeneous segmentation, for which centuries of phonetic
literacy had prepared the psychological ground, that evoked
the traits of the modern world. The numerous galaxy of events
and products of that method of mechanization of handicrafts,
are merely incidental to the method itself. It is the method of
the fixed or specialist point of view that insists on repetition as
the criterion of truth and practicality. Today our science and
method strive not towards a point of view but to discover how