The clock not the steam engine, is the key machine of the modern industrial age.
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For most Americans, progress means accepting what is new because it is new, and discarding what is old because it is old.
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Today, the notion of progress in a single line without goal or limit seems perhaps the most parochial notion of a very parochial century.
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The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art.
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