The Origins of Technology [excerpts]

A general law governs the development of Technology. Both words Technology and Praxiology may be adopted, the latter to refer to the most general part, the former to refer to the slightly less general part in the same group of research. For all human laws are sustained by a unique law which is a divine law and which does not only have all the power it wishes, but also lends its force to all the others and still has some left over. The human and divine laws are just illusory artifices and the society itself soon becomes a fray in which the most dishonest individuals are bound to be successful. Technology comprises sorts of problems, resulting from different ways of considering techniques. The several studies put together make up general Technology. The physico-theological conception of the principles of action consists in linking the individual will – its orderly and permanent elements – with the group's will and wisdom.