“Man's nature, so to speak, is a perpetual factory of idols.”
John Calvin (1509–1564) French Protestant reformer
“The factory was not made for man but man for the factory.”
Source: Matthew Arnold (1939), Ch. 8
Context: The doctrines of Calvinism involved a reversal of values with which Arnold became increasingly concerned. Work had always been a curse and a means, but it had now turned into a blessing and an end. The production of goods had become an end in itself and the consumption of goods only the means to further production. The factory was not made for man but man for the factory.
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