The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premisses of which no one has yet dared to draw the conclusions that will follow in a thousand years.
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- Human, All-Too-Human, Part II: The Wanderer and His Shadow (1880), Paul V. Cohn translation (1913); Exact wording and attribution checked. Aphorisms criticizing the social and psychological consequences of machinery.
- Human, All-Too-Human, Part II: The Wanderer and His Shadow (1880), Paul V. Cohn translation (1913)
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