• The machine has had a pernicious effect upon virtue, pity, and love, and young men used to machines which induce inertia, and fear, are near impotent.

    Edward Dahlberg: The machine has had a pernicious effect upon virtue, pity, and love, and young men used to machines which induce inertia, and fear, are near impotent.
    Edward Dahlberg (1967). “Alms for Oblivion”, p.44, U of Minnesota Press