Misc...on the Protestant Ethic OR "It's About Work"--Alice

[alice wellintown]

Mumford's Technics names,  "The Monastery and the Clock," the
Benedictines, the working order.

The regularization of time, the increase in mechanical  power, the
multiplication of goods,  the contraction of
time and space, the standardization of performance and product, the
transfer of skill to automata, and the
increase in collective interdependence --these, then, are the chief
characteristics of our machine civilization. They are the basis of the
particular forms of life and modes of expression that distinguish
Western Civilization, at least in degree, from the various earlier
civilizations that preceded it.
Lewis Mumford, Technic and Civilization, p. 281


Victor Hugo names the Printing Press in The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
McLuhan...Press & Brides Mechanical and Jameson discusses the
lithograph and mass production...those shoes. Where did you get them?
You must be joakin, son.

Jesuits are bricklayers in black robes. They'll sooner put Christ in
Concrete as give up their hammers.



On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 5:46 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> If interested, Trevor-Roper sez [book is 1968] it seems irrefutable
> that the Reformation in the 16th Century lead to the Enlightment.....
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> "Without Calvin, no Voltaire"---he sez
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> As an historical footnote, T-R seems proud of asserting, finding
> an actual book title and a source by a major economic historian--one Robertson--
> who argue that the Jesuits of the time shared the Calvinists' rationale:
> secular work was good, salvational.......therefore capitalism was too.
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> Against the day indeed.....
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