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Oncea manor womanbeginstotakea seriousinterest in the way the universe worksthat is to say in science there is no telling what may turn up.
— 1976 Butter Side Up.
He that purchases a manor will think to have an exact survey of the land, but who thinks of taking so exact a survey of his conscience, how that money was got that purchased that manor? We call that a man's means, which he hath; but that is truly his means, what way he came by it.
john donne— 1626 Sermon preached at the funeral of Sir William Cockayne, 12 Dec.
the society which projects and undertakes the technological transformation of nature alters the base of domination by gradually replacing personal dependence (of the slave on the master, the serf on the lord of the manor, the lord on the donor of the fief, etc.) with dependence on the “objective order of things” (on economic laws, the market etc.).
herbert marcuse— p. 144 (One-Dimensional Man (1964))
In the political, the social, the economic, even the cultural sphere, the revolutions of our time have been revolutions "against" rather than revolutions "for"... On the whole throughout this period the man--or party--that stood for doing the positive has usually cut a pathetic figure; well meaning but ineffectual, civilized but unrealistic, he was suspect alike to [by both] the ultras of destruction and the ultras of preservation and restoration.
Peter Drucker— p. 111 (Landmarks of Tomorrow: A Report on the New 'Post-Modern' World (1959))
