Few can contemplate without a sense of exhilaration the splendid achievements of practical energy and technical skill, which, … - E. F. Schumacher

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The kingdom is where the King reigns. If He is reigning in my heart, then the Kingdom of Heaven has come to me.

E. F. Schumacher

Few can contemplate without a sense of exhilaration the splendid achievements of practical energy and technical skill, which, from the latter part of the seventeenth century, were transforming the face of material civilization, and of which England was the daring, if not too scrupulous, pioneer.

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Wisdom demands a new orientation of science and technology toward the organic, the gentle, the elegant and beautiful.

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