Robert Hunter (author) Quote

He [Tolstoy] denounced science and all the products of the mechanical era, including "steam-engines, and telegraphs, photographs, telephones, sewing-machines, phonographs, electricity, telescopes, spectroscopes, microscopes, chloroform, Lister bandages, carbolic acid... All this progress is very striking indeed;" he writes, "but owing to some unlucky chance... this progress has not as yet ameliorated, but it has rather deteriorated the condition of the working man... [It is] these very... machines which have deprived him of his wages, and brought him to a state of entire slavery to the manufacturer." He denounced the motives of those who engineer this progress.


Footnote: Tolstoy What is to be Done? (1899) pp.219 - Why We Fail as Christians (1919)

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He [Tolstoy] denounced science and all the products of the mechanical era, including steam-engines, and telegraphs, photographs, telephones,...

He [Tolstoy] denounced science and all the products of the mechanical era, including steam-engines, and telegraphs, photographs, telephones,...

He [Tolstoy] denounced science and all the products of the mechanical era, including steam-engines, and telegraphs, photographs, telephones,...

He [Tolstoy] denounced science and all the products of the mechanical era, including steam-engines, and telegraphs, photographs, telephones,...