Science, Technology, and Government

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Ends with a quote from usury expert "of the Institute of Social Order" * [Bernard W. Dempsey, S.J.](https://isidore.co/calibre/#library_id=CalibreLibrary&panel=book_list&search=authors:%22%3DDempsey%2C%20Bernard%20W.%2C%20S.J.%20\(1903-1960\)%22), “The Worker As Person”, *Review of Social Economy* (March, 1954), pp. 19-20:> There are those who see in the mechanization of modern industry an inevitable and devastating anti-personal force.... First of all, man has been condemned to earn his bread in the sweat of his brow; and yet past ages have more sweat and less bread than typical American industrial workers experience.... Finally, the industrial discipline can also be challenging, interesting and inspiring, especially when an able mechanic is furnished good tools and materials to work with. We must not forget that the farmer is weather-paced, season-paced and animal-paced with a tyranny that is at least as exacting as the industrial discipline.... In the day of serfs in Western Europe the horse was the symbol of nobility and knighthood. Many American workers in the course of a day control more horse power than there was on the whole field of Agincourt.He's seemingly more balanced than [McNabb's borderline Ludditism](https://isidore.co/calibre/#panel=book_details&book_id=7744).