And what we say of the railroad is true of all industries: always the man and the machine pursue each other, the former never attaining rest, the latter never attaining satisfaction.
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- System of Economical Contradictions, Chapter IV: Machinery, Benjamin R. Tucker translation (1888); Exact wording and attribution checked. Dialectical argument examining machinery’s potential benefits and its damaging effects under existing economic relations.
- System of Economical Contradictions, Chapter IV: Machinery, Benjamin R. Tucker translation (1888)
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