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Machines Are Admirable And Tyrannize Only With The User's Consent. Where, Then, Is The Enemy? Not Where The Machine Gives Relief From Drudgery But Where Human Judgment Abdicates. The Smoothest Machine-made Product Of The Age Is The Organization Man, For Even The Best Organizing Principle Tends To Corrupt, And The Mechanical Principle Corrupts Absolutely.

When People Accept Futility And The Absurd As Normal, The Culture Is Decadent.

Schools Are Not Intended To Moralize A Wicked World, But To Impart Knowledge And Develop Intelligence, With Only Two Social Aims In Mind: Prepare To Take On One's Share In The World's Work, And Perhaps In Addition, Lend A Hand In Improving Society, After Schooling Is Done.

The Book, Like The Bicycle, Is A Perfect Form.

No One Has Ever Used Historical Examples, Near Or Remote, With The Detail, Precision, And Directness To Be Found In Every Page Of Shaw.