bs2@strypey I first noticed the term in Percy Shelly's _Defence of Poetry_ but similar uses show up in Bertrand and Dora Russell's _Prospects for Industrial Civilization_ and, more recently in Amitav Gosh's _Nutmeg's Curse_.. There seems to be a problem with looking at the world as a purposeless machine.. There has to some sort of feel for purpose, or the sacred, mystery.. Theodore Roszak in _Voice of the Earth_ works on the problem too I think.
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