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It not only accepted progress as an unmistakable fact--mistaking, however, acceleration and facilitation for progress--but in its mad folly believed in an immutable law of progress which, working with the blind forces of machinery, would propel man forward.
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James Beck
Republican · Pennsylvania

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Beck warns against the misconception that acceleration in technology guarantees progress.

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