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Now all this time the Leonardo, or artist, type was making one thing at a time for his patrons. When I was young the Victorian era was absolutely rampant and downtown there were beautiful cabinetmakers making beautiful cabinets for the rich middle class or the nobles. In other words, the artist made the end product with his own hands. They were good at developing more and more artists, digging art into almost everybody. It was being very greatly cultivated. Now in the new era the artist-Leonardo said: ‘There are not enough artists to make end product for everybody by hand.’ So what has to go on from now on is the artist-scientist-Leonardo type who makes designs for tools and the tools make the end product. And the tools require a lot of power; and we now have the relaying of power. We have the waterwheel. We can generate electricity, and so forth. Then all of our machinery you will find is all leverage… Various forms of levers. For the gears are just a series of levers-- all tied up to an enormous entity much more than the muscle of man. So that really is the beginning of what we might call the mass production era.
