AUTOMATION
Sir, —In a Christian land were automation successfully to operate, could opposing forces penetrate or prevail? Used not primarily as a source of wealth (material) or as relief from drudgery or monotony (recalling the maxim of “idle hands”) but to free families to carry out in true fellowship, their leaders’ most insistent behest towards God, neighbour and neighbourhood, what fresh fields of happiness and adventure, satisfaction and contententment. physical, mental, and spiritual, might not unfold? Would there not be time for appreciation, understanding study and restoration of rural and civic peace and beauties vanishing since “the first industrial revolution and its degradation of man to the level of a machine part?” Would there not be time for full and gracious living, for the exercise of skill, talent, and devotion to the discovery and service of “first things” with all other good eventuating?—Yours, etc.. WIDE HORIZON. May 7, 1956.
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Press, Volume XCIII, Issue 27962, 8 May 1956, Page 3
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