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Emerson, Carlyle, Ruskin, Samuel Butler, and Max Nordau, in the nineteenth century, and, in our time, Ferrero, all pointed out the inevitable dangers of the excessive mechanization of human society.
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Beck lists several thinkers who warned about the dangers of excessive mechanization in society.
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