“Perhaps never before have the peoples of the world been so close to losing the very core of their humanity; for of what use are cosmic energies, if they are handled by disoriented and demoralized men?”

—  Lewis Mumford

THE CHALLENGE TO RENEWAL: The Promise of Our Age
The Conduct Of Life (1951)

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