Volume 15, Number 9 · November 19, 1970
Is Science Evil?
By E.J. Hobsbawm
The Myth of the Machine: The Pentagon of Power
by Lewis Mumford
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 496 pp., $12.95
Prophecy is never a comfortable activity, but sometimes, as witness the Bible, it is a popular one. Today is one of those times when there is a flourishing market for predictions of doom. It is as significant that the Book-of-the-Month Club has selected Lewis Mumford's The Pentagon of Power as that its author has written it. More so, indeed, for Mumford has been developing his message for two generations. It has varied less than the size and attention of his audiences.
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