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Lewis Mumford

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The cities and mansions that people dream of are those in which they finally live.


— Lewis Mumford


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The vast material displacements the machine has made in our physical environment are perhaps in the long run less important than its spiritual contributions to our culture.


— Lewis Mumford


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To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity.


— Lewis Mumford


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Today, the degradation of the inner life is symbolized by the fact that the only place sacred from interruption is the private toilet.


— Lewis Mumford


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Today, the notion of progress in a single line without goal or limit seems perhaps the most parochial notion of a very parochial century.


— Lewis Mumford


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War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society.


— Lewis Mumford


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Every new baby is a blind desperate vote for survival: people who find themselves unable to register an effective political protest against extermination do so by a biological act.


— Lewis Mumford


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A Mumford essay also tends to be multidisciplinary combining. Life
Mumford was born in Flushing Queens New York and graduated from Stuyvesant High School in 1912. He viewed this device as the key invention of the whole Industrial Revolution contrary to the common view of the steam engine holding the prime position writing: "The clock not the steam-engine is the key-machine of the modern industrial age.

Mumford was influenced by the work of Scottish theorist Sir Patrick Geddes and worked closely with his associate the British sociologist Victor Branford. Bacon and Vannevar Bush. Mumford was also a contemporary and friend of Frank Lloyd Wright Clarence Stein Frederic Osborn Edmund N.

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