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Unity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 August 2024

Extract

There is a limited pleasure to be had from neatness. Neatness at home and uniformity at work, both interpenetrating each other, are the modern substitutes for unity. They are habitual, even virtuous. The several relations between them are governed, not only by the overflow of factory method, business method and military method into the home, but also by the simple necessity, where many live in a narrow space, to slow things away, to be tidy. Here we witness an order that is imposed. Behind this lies the mountainous pile of things and information, and our own diminished understanding of their true relations.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © 1955 Provincial Council of the English Province of the Order of Preachers

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