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The Industrial Revolution, too, failed to introduce a reign of freedom and happiness: it converted the medieval serf into an industrial slave; replaced the feudal baron by the industrial mogul, created in its wake an ever-growing, ever-shifting class of declassés, who had neither pride of ancestry nor love of tradition... The age of machine and competition, of capital, class-struggle, and demagogy was upon man.

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D'Alembert, who wrote the introduction to the Encyclopédie, resigned his editorship with the scathing remark that the work was like a harlequin's coat: some good stuff, but mostly rags.

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He was an iconoclast. But even in this category he defies classification. For, he fits no pattern, and is beyond all norm. He sought no followers, he shunned confederates, he hewed no tablets to replace those which he had shattered.

Tobias Dantzig

Tobias Dantzig

Tobias Dantzig

Born: February 19, 1884

Died: August 9, 1956 (aged 72)

Bio: Tobias Dantzig was a mathematician of Baltic German and Russian American heritage, the father of George Dantzig, and the author of Number: The Language of Science and Aspects of Science.

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