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The human desire to escape the flesh, which took one form in asceticism, might take another form in the creation of machines. Thus, the wish to rise above the bestial body manifested itself not only in angels but in mechanical creatures. Certainly, once machines existed, humans clearly attached to them feelings of escape from the flesh.

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Bruce Mazlish

Bruce Mazlish

Born: September 15, 1923
Died: November 27, 2016 (aged 93)
Bio: Bruce Mazlish was an American historian who was a professor in the Department of History at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Known for:
  1. The New Global History (2006)
  2. The Fourth Discontinuity (1993)
  3. Civilization and its contents (2004)
  4. Global history reader (2005)
  5. The Uncertain Sciences (1998)

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