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> "... to deplore the spectacle, among the artisan class, of a workman occupied during his whole life in nothing but... pinheads, we [see] something quite as lamentable in the intellectual class, in the exclusive employment of the human brain in resolving equations... The moral effect is, unhappily, analogous.. a miserable indifference about the general course of human affairs."
- https://philosophicalsociety.com/BonMot13.htm
#LewisMumford quotes this by #Comte in #BasisOfRenwal the last chapter in #ConditionOfMan
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> A man's mind is as fatally narrowed, and his feelings towards the great ends of humanity as miserably stunted, by giving all his thoughts to,,, the resolution of a few equations, as... putting on the heads of pins. The "dispersive #speciality " of the present race of scientific men, who... have a positive aversion to enlarged views, and seldom either know or care for any of the interests of mankind beyond the narrow limits of their pursuit...
- https://www.gutenberg.org/files/16833/16833-h/16833-h.htm
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The Project Gutenberg eBook of Auguste Comte And Positivism, by John Stuart Mill.