¶ Newton vs. Einstein (2)
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Newton vs. Einstein:
“was beginning to take place in my generation’s unfolding experience than had occurred between my father’s and grandfather’s and my great grandfather’s and great great grandfather’s successive generations. It was clearly an environment that was changing; and though the environment changes might not alter man’s genes, changes in his external conditions might permit man to realize many more of his innate capabilities. Dwellings are environment modifying machines; so are automobiles. Automobiles are little part-time dwellings on wheels. Both autos and dwellings are complex tools within the far vaster tool complex of world-embracing industrialization. Life continually alters the environment and the altered environment in turn alters the potentials and realities of life. The environment is basically a complex of nonsimultaneously occurring but omnintegrating or interstimulating, and therefore interregenerating, mutations of man’s integral, internal metabolic regeneration organism, — on the one hand; on the other is his external, invention-realized, metabolic regeneration organism, which we think of and speak of as industrialization.”
