THE MACHINE AND MEN
" It is not -the machine that is responsible for our misfortunes and misdeeds," observes Mr Barratt Brown in " The Machine and the Worker." " The fa. Ult is not- in ,thie machine, but, ' in ourselves, that We are underlings.' The machine has neither power nor will of. its own. to help or hinder. It stands .ready to serve the ends that we choose :tQ.,pui--sue. But we use or misuse it .at our peril. If we turn it on ourselves in the internecine conflict of mechan,ised warfare, we misuse it for our destruction instead of using it for our welfare. If we squander on .it with prodigious wastefulness our natural resources—of coal and oil, of copper and iron and timber—We are preparing once again' our own destruction. If We lay waste the country and despoil its beauty and disturb its quiet, it is we who are the vandals. Finally, if we seek personal. power and profit by the exploitation of others —our fellow countrymen--or far-off native races—it is on us "ahfl not on the machine that the curse- of Midas will descend."
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Waipa Post, Volume 49, Issue 3555, 8 December 1934, Page 3
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184THE MACHINE AND MEN Waipa Post, Volume 49, Issue 3555, 8 December 1934, Page 3
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