“Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.”

—  Lewis Mumford

The Brown Decades: A Study of the Arts in America, 1865-1895 (1931), p. 3

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American historian, sociologist, philosopher of technology,… 1895–1990

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