Thomas Carlyle Quotes on Technology
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The three great elements of modern civilization, gunpowder, printing, and the Protestant religion.
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He who first shortened the labor of copyists by device of movable types was disbanding hired armies, and cashiering most kings and senates, and creating a whole new democratic world: he had invented the art of printing.
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Man is a tool-using animal...Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.
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Battles, in these ages, are transacted by mechanism; with the slightest possible development of human individuality or spontaneity: men now even die, and kill one another, in an artificial manner.