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Lewis Mumford: "Para filosof industrialisme, dari Bacon ke Bentham, da...

"Para filosof industrialisme, dari Bacon ke Bentham, dari Smith ke Marx, bersikeras bahwa perbaikan kondisi manusia adalah persyaratan moralitas tertinggi. Tetapi dalam hal apa perbaikan itu terjadi? Jawabannya tampak begitu jelas bagi mereka sehingga mereka tidak repot-repot membenarkannya: perluasan dan pemenuhan keinginan material manusia, dan penyebaran manfaat ini, dari beberapa yang pernah mendahului mereka, kepada banyak orang yang telah lama tinggal di sisa-sisa Dives telah dibuang ke selokan."

--- Lewis Mumford

Versi Bahasa Inggris

The philosophers of industrialism, from Bacon to Bentham, from Smith to Marx, insisted that the improvement of man's condition was the highest requirement of morality. But in what did the improvement consist? The answer seemed so obvious to them that they did not bother to justify it: the expansion and fulfillment of the material wants of man, and the spread of these benefits, from the few who had once preempted them, to the many who had so long lived on the scraps Dives had thrown into the gutter.