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On every hand, the living artisan is driven from his workshop, to make room for a speedier, inanimate one.
Thomas Carlyle
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Signs of the Times (1829); Were we required to characterise this age of ours by any single epithet, we should be tempted to call it, not an Heroical, Devotional, Philosophical, or Moral Age, but, above all others, the Mechanical Age. It is the Age of Machinery, in every outwar
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  • sourcebooks.web.fordham.eduChecked using manual, 21 October 2026Signs of the Times (1829); Were we required to characterise this age of ours by any single epithet, we should be tempted to call it, not an Heroical, Devotional, Philosophical, or Moral Age, but, above all others, the Mechanical Age. It is the Age of Machinery, in every outwar

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