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It is true that two men can lift a bigger stone than one man. A group can build automobiles quicker and better than one man, and bread from a huge factory is cheaper and more uniform. When our food and clothing and housing all are born in the complication of mass production, mass method is bound to get into our thinking and to eliminate all other thinking. In our time mass or collective production has entered our economics, our politics, and even our religion, so that some nations have substituted the idea collective for the idea God. This in my time is the danger. There is great tension in
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Astounded how prescient this is to our modern times. We went from factory workers to factory produced citizens. The tools are modern but the methods are as old as politics itself. Nice to get a reminder of that from time to time and try to be a free thinker.
Her faith is a mountain, and you, my son, haven’t even got a shovel yet.”
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Lee watched him for a while before he went back to his kitchen. He lifted the breadbox and took out a tiny volume bound in leather, and the gold tooling was almost completely worn away—The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius in English translation.
I hope this is a nod from Mr. Steinbeck to Mr. Aurelius. That we be another thing that we share.
