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"The better a man knew his own duties upon it, the less he understood the duties of his neighbour, and in all the world there was not one who understood the monster as a whole. Those master brains had perished. They had left full directions, it is true, and their successors had each of them mastered a portion of those directions. But Humanity, in its desire for comfort, had over-reached itself. It had exploited the riches of nature too far. Quietly and complacently, it was sinking into decadence
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This book is for anyone else who cringes whenever you see people at restaurant tables choosing their phones over their tablemates. Social media chosen over society. But it's not just our worship of and reliance upon mobile devices or even computers... how often do people choose stairs over elevators? Or choose walking over automobiles- even for short trips? I'm calling it machine enabled laziness. It is startling to see the many parallels in this book to our modern society! And no, I'm not a lud
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