Knowledge divided against itself, a science to whose incompleteness is added an artificial split, has played its part in generating enslavement of men, women and children in factories in which they are animated machines to tend inanimate machines.
This quote critiques the division of knowledge and its role in the exploitation of workers in industrial settings.
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