¶ Teleology (2)
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Teleology:
"death, caused further death to be a paying business, an odd result from the original cause.
"The means of provoking the effect by the cause was not merely a mechanico-electrical process; more important were the phantom captains who performed the function of ‘interpolation’ at the various receiving instruments by transforming the dots and dashes not only into ink symbols but into further botanical death.
"The essence of this phenomenon is that the interpolating function is one that no machine will ever perform. The art of teleologic design is, then, one of delicacy of attunement in the interpolation of every seemingly casual event of life into non-haphazard objective instruments–whether written words, medical prescriptions, or pencils, the function of the instrument being, in turn, the harmonic abetment of the trends intuitively to be detected by the teleologist through the keyhole of his ‘own’ phantom captain’s study. Teleology will have more and more significance as the teleologist carries on the vast task of exploring and including all factors making up man’s "
¶ Citations
- NINE CHAINS TO THE MOON; pp.46-47, 1938
