Arthur Young Quotes
The purpose creates the machine.
Young, Arthur M. The Reflexive Universe: Evolution of Consciousness. Delacorte Press, 1976.
Hine was emphasizing the importance of the worker, However, since 1932, there has been technological change. Behind the building of modern machines are still the brains of men, but not so much the toil anymore. Most machines are made in modern times by a combination of the “toil” of men and robots, and the proportion done by men is steadily decreasing. And this change has been a large factor of the loss of dignity and respect that the American manual worker has undergone.
First use of the term robot to indicate an artificial human.
He lost to a career politician, Truman Newberry and was very bitter. See {603299}.
He was intensely fascinated by mechanics so he joined the Russian Army where he received education and training, and became one of the great military inventors and engineers of all time.
Arthur Young was an English writer on agriculture, economics and social statistics. Not himself successful as a farmer, he built on connections and activities as a publicist a substantial reputation as an expert on agricultural improvement. After the French Revolution of 1789, his views on its politics carried weight as an informed observer, and he became an important opponent of British reformers. Young is considered a major English writer on agriculture, although he is best known as a social and political observer. Also read widely were his Tour in Ireland (1780) and Travels in France (1792).
