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Thomas Carlyle on AI

2 quotes from Thomas Carlyle on the wall, 1829, newest first. Each one is verbatim and links to where it was said. Sources include Edinburgh Review.

  1. There is no end to machinery

    Scottish essayist Thomas Carlyle published this essay anonymously in the Edinburgh Review in June 1829, calling his era the Mechanical Age.

    Edinburgh ReviewSigns of the Times

  2. Men are grown mechanical in head and in heart

    Thomas Carlyle, Scottish essayist, in his June 1829 Edinburgh Review essay "Signs of the Times" on how machinery was reshaping society and thought.

    Edinburgh ReviewSigns of the Times

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