Evolution The violent spirit to forge a civilization vol 1

«Of course, they were not going to ban the printing press,

since the printing press and the use of the Latin

language itself kept the people, the enslaved people,

away from knowledge, the same people who during the

first industrial revolution would find their first

interaction with the machine. But for this interaction

with the machine it was necessary to train the labour

force, so the common people (^) [ 93 ] combined pre-

industrial activity with religious activities, creating the

idea that having a job is a blessing, what an

extraordinary blessing, to be exploited, not only for the

dogma of faith, but also to encourage the production of

the economic cycle. That is why the fear of the machine

and the loss of the quality of doing things manually are

evident.»

«And this disconsolate atmosphere of the common

people becoming an operator of the machine compels me

to review Robert Owen's notes (^) [ 94 ] on his humanistic

desire to bring progress without violence.»

[...]When I went to this meeting, ever to be

remembered in the annals of history, no one except

myself had any notion of what I intended to do and

to say in the part of the address alluded to. The

public mind of the metropolis on the morning

previous to the commencement of the meeting was

in a most excited state. The then friends of my

views, so far as I had disclosed them, came in

continually increasing numbers,—the great majority

of these being of the best disposed among the upper

classes in Church and State, and of the upper

portion of the middle classes, who were sificerely