The alchemists, whose conceptualizations interming1ed affect with sense, dealt with affect as a matter of course (although they did not "know" it-not explicitly). We have removed the affect from the thing, and can therefore brilliantly manipu1ate the thing. We are still victims, however, of the uncomprehended emotions generated by-we wou1d say, in the presence of-the thing. We have lost the mythic universe of the pre-experimental mind, or have at least ceased to further its development. That 10ss has 1eft our increased techno10gical power ever more dangerous1y at the mercy of our still
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