Science Against the Day Labor

[David Morris]

"Empirical Practice" starts when a child reaches into a hot flame.  Even
amoebae recoil when hurt.

Do you imply that Religious Practice isn't reality based?  Religion knows
how to control as a primary goal.

Science doesn't have a mind of its own.  It ain't the anti-sacred.

David Morris

On Monday, April 15, 2013, alice wellintown wrote:

> If God does not, as Milton sez in his famous sonnet, exact day labor light
> denied, this hasn't prevented men from exacting day labor from men, light,
> and even life, denied. Science was not much around to make safe the lives
> of the working men and women we read about in AGTD. Empirical practice was
> the method adopted, trial and selection, the railroad, the mines, the
> textile mills, these had not science, and many lives were lost because
> safety valves were not devised or employed to protect workers from
> exploding steam machines. Sure, science would have made things safer,
> better, if not for the workers, for the bosses  and their bosses, but for
> safety it was the men who worked the mines the factories who improved the
> work, the conditions, the safety. Even the laws of mechanical motion were
> not trumped by these pragmatic and practical men who worked, for the most
> part, without math or the scientific method. But once science began to
> apply its method, like a man with a hammer who sees a nail in every grain
> of sand, science applied its "scientific" method to every inch of man and
> to every hair and every grain of sand. And so, science, systematically,
> took over, from religion, from all other institutions of culture, and to
> all inquires, to thought itself, to every mode of investigation, and it
> claimed to have a better method for advancing all human persuits and
> objectives, even the destruction of all human pursuits and objectives.
> Moreover, not satisfied with using tools, extensions of human power, to
> improve the human lot, to add human tools and science to the existing
> patterns of life, as, say a farmer with a tool in his hand, science
> fashioned organisms, including man, for machaniisms, for machines. So, the
> huge farms, where science applied its method to plants and animals, and the
> huge hospitals (white visitation) where science applied its methods to
> human minds, and the huge, world wars where it applied its killing
> machines, machines that a man might fly in, if he were fashioned to it and
> not the other way round. This is Blicero's launch!
>
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