ABSTRACT
But after Napoleon the machine-technics of Western Europe grew gigantic and, with its manu facturing towns, its railways, its steamships, it has forced us in the end to face the problem squarely and seriously. What is the significance of technics? What meaning within history, what value within life, does it possess, where — socially and meta physically-does it stand? There were many an swers offered to these questions, but at bottom these were reducible to two.
