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Apprenticeship Quote by Herbert Read

“Only a people serving an apprenticeship to nature can be…” quote by Herbert Read — Download Open image

“Only a people serving an apprenticeship to nature can be trusted with machines. Only such people will so contrive and control those machines that their products are an enhancement of biological needs, and not a denial of them.”

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