...the culmination of a slow and continuous growth. It is over eighty years since Carlyle wrote : " This is the age of Machinery in every outward and inward sense of that word. . . . For the simplest operation, some helps and accompaniments, some cunning abbreviating process...

...characterize this age of ours, by any single epithet, we should be tempted to call it, not an heroical, devotional, philosophical or moral age, but, above...machinery, in every outward and inward sense of that word Men are grown mechanical in head and in heart, as well as in hand Their whole efforts, attachments,...

...characterise this age of ours by any single epithet, we should be tempted to call it, not an Heroical, Devotional, Philosophical, or Moral Age, but, above...practises the great art of adapting means to ends. Not the external and physical alone is now managed by machinery, but the internal and spiritual also....

...characterise this age of ours by any single epithet, we should be tempted to call it, not an heroical, devotional, philosophical, or moral age, but above...of machinery in every outward and inward sense of the word.' — Misccllan. vol. ii. p. 146. ' It is admitted, on all sides, that the metaphysical and...

...characterise this age of ours by any single epithet, we should be tempted to call it, not an Heroical, Devotional, Philosophical or Moral Age, but above all others, the Mechanical Age . . . Not the external and physical alone is now managed by machinery but the internal and spiritual...

...first to use the notion of machinery for a comprehensive critique of his time of which he says in 1829: It is the Age of Machinery, in every outward and inward...with its whole undivided might, forwards, teaches and practices the great art of adapting means to ends. 9 Timothy Walker who replied to Carlyle in a "Defense...

...other words: this is not a Religious age." Instead, as Carlyle divines in his memorable lines, it is "the Mechanical Age. It is the Age of Machinery, in every outward and inward sense of that word." Carlyle, a deeply religious unbeliever, accepted the demise of Religion in its traditional garb, and...

...required to characterise this age of ours by any single epithet, we should be tempted to call it ... the Mechanical Age. It is the Age of Machinery, in...outward and inward sense of that word; the age which . . . practises the great art of adapting means to ends. Nothing is now done direcdy, or by hand; all...

...this age of ours by any single epithet,' he wrote, 'we should be tempted to call it, not an Heroical, Devotional, Philosophical, or Moral Age, but, above all others, the Mechanical Age' (see figure 12).* The increasing awareness of the drama of social change was carried and propagated...

...single epithet, we should be tempted to call it, not a Heroical, Devotional, Philosophical, or Moral Age. It is the Age of Machinery, in every outward...the great art of adapting means to ends. Nothing is done directly, or by hand; all is by rule and calculated contrivance. For the simplest operation, some...