brings to light what is dangerous, what gnaws at and poisons life, in our way of carrying on science –: life sick with this inhuman clockwork and mechanism, with the ‘impersonality’ of the worker, with the false economy of ‘division of labour’. The goal gets lost, culture – the means, the modern way of carrying on science, barbarized … In this essay the ‘historical sense’ of which this century is so proud is recognized for the first time as a sickness, as a typical sign of decay.
