Man of Machine--Which? (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Ill WHAT TAKES PLACE IN THE EMPLOYER WHEN THE MACHINE COMES laughter. It holds no moral, human relation towards our generation. It is nothing to it whether a child is born or a man dies or whether this kindgom becomes a republic or that republic a kingdom. It has no single thought outside that of its ordained end: TO FLATTEN ITS GREEDY PALM ON EVERY TASK NOW DONE BY MAN. Is it a wonder then that the machine should in time re-act on its owner? Servants generally do re-act on their masters. It has sometimes been observed that a footman has taught manners to an Earl. Any treasure with dividend possibilities in it, whether of esthetic gratification or economic returns, has streaked across it that red-lettered indictment: "Where your treasure is, there will your heart be f also!" The economic possibilities of the machine are so vast, so capable of increasing enlargement, that there is Bo treasure common to man which half so powerfully endangers human rights. Over the sunken hulk of a Spanish galleon a handful of ear-ringed scavengers have slashed one another with dirk and sword. Over a few square miles of province contending nations have hacked with pike or Mauser bullet. In search of a bag of opals and a box of flashing rubies caravans have embroidered desert sands with their bones, and even for a pan or two of nuggets hordes of men have left the manners and morals of civilization back of them, with barriers of snowy passes and death-threatening storms before them! All this for a mere thimble dip in the world's treasure bag! But once get the economic world in perspective and see epitomized before you what men have done to get the treasures of the machine, and, by comparison, the ear-ringed pirates, fights, colonization strifes, venturesome sacrifices of fanatic me...