4. The New World
True education makes for inequality: the inequality of individuality, the inequality of success, the glorious inequality of talent, of genius. For inequality, not mediocrity, individual superiority, not standardization, is the measure of the progress of the world.
—Felix E. Schelling
The Old World
The Industrial Revolution was about the mechanization of work, the replacement of man by machine as a source of energy. Machines replaced people’s muscles. Work was defined as a change in one or more properties of matter by the application of energy to it. For example, moving an object, boiling water, converting iron ore to iron, ...
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