The Idolatry of Science 



mean streets in the squalid centres of 

 industry ; in the rearing of millions of 

 children who have never wandered in a green 

 field, and to whom, if they ever look up into 

 the murky canopy above them, there is never 

 to be seen the blue sky that "bends over 

 all " ; in the soul-sterilizing circumstances of 

 the factory where from morning till night 

 amid an insensate din of damned machinery 

 men and women become mere living cogs in 

 wagging mechanisms and by iterated mindless 

 manual movements create by the million in 

 dreary facsimile some horrid jiggumbob that 

 the world had better be without. 



This is the main achievement of Messrs 

 Watt and Stephenson, and as a by-product 

 we are whirled about the country when we 

 travel in a manner that makes it nearly 

 impossible for us to see the country through 

 which we pass, being half the time demersed 

 in cuttings and often buried in tunnels. 

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