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“Nothing tends to materialize man and to deprive his work of the faintest trace of mind more than the extreme division of labor.”
― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America: And Two Essays on America

“In his [Goethe's] studies on morphology, he reminds one of a spectator at a play, with strong artistic sympathies. His delicate instinct makes him feel how all the details fall into their places, and work harmoniously together, and how some common purpose governs the whole; and yet, while this exquisite order and symmetry gives him intense pleasure, he cannot formulate the dominant idea. That is reserved for the scientific critic of the drama, while the artistic spectator feels perhaps, as Goethe did in the presence of natural phenomena, an antipathy to such dissection, fearing... that his pleasure may be spoilt by it.
[On Goethe's Scientific Researches (1853)]”
― Hermann von Helmholtz, Science and Culture: Popular and Philosophical Essays

“Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they grow used to everything except to living in a society which has not their own manners.”
― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America: And Two Essays on America

“In order to grasp the quintessential character of Megalopolis we must shut our eyes to the palpable earth, with its mantle of vegetation and its tent of clouds, and conceive what might be made of the human landscape if it could be entirely fabricated out of paper; for the ultimate aim of Megalopolis is to conduct the whole of human life and intercourse through the medium of paper.”
― Lewis Mumford, The Story of Utopias, Ideal Commonwealths and Social Myths; 1923 Leather Bound