“The human spirit is being liberated from the old power of organic material. As though with tongs, the machine is tearing spirit out of the power of material, is breaking the old splice between material and spirit. This is the metaphysical meaning of the appearance of the machine in our world. The futurists do not understand this.”
– Nikolai Berdyaev, The Spiritual Crisis of the Intelligentsia
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