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do they instiiicUvely feel themfelves to be Binnen by virtue of a congenital, hereditary taint or obfiqnity. Indeed, they c^i on]y with great difficalt]r be seriously persuaded that they are sinnera at alL They are in danger of losing the point of view of sin. The relatjon of status or fealty involved in the concept of sin is becoming alien to thdr habit of mind. They are therefore slow to realize that their past life has violated such a relation of fealty, on the one hand, and that it is of vital consequence to reestabli^ such a relation of status by a work of salvation or redemption.
The kindly ministrations of the church and the clergy grate on the sensibilities of men so trained, as being so much ado about nothing. The machine, their master, is no respecter of persons and knows neither morality nor dignity nor prescriptive right, divine or human ; its teaching is training them into insensibility of the whole range of concepts on which these ministrations proceed.^
No solo en la dirección de crecimiento dada al sentimiento vulgar y a la comprensión vulgar de los hechos es patente la disciplina prosaica de la tecnología de la máquina, sino también en el alcance y
La culturaJ era de Natural Rights, NatnnI Liberty, aod Natural Hellglon reduced God to the rftnk of » " Great Artificer," and the mnchlne technology ia, in turn, reiegatmg Htm to that fringe of minor etnploymentB and those oatlying indoatrial ragioiu to which the huidlcraftamen have been retlrvd.