REVOLT AGAINST MACHINES
True, Virginia
Revolt Against Machines IT ALL GOES TOGETHER, by Eric Gill. Devin-Adair. $2. Reviewed by Virginia True THIS book is an able and eloquent expression of aesthetic revolt against modern mechanism...
...But it is satisfying to find so clear and concise a statement of the evils that exist in industrialism as we practice it...
...He scores the factory system, the economy of scarcity, our philosophy which decries free-will and leads to war, art expression not tied to the needs of life, and says of industrialism: "It all goes together—industrialism and the leisure state, the potentially contemplative prostituted to the active, the sacred to the profane...
...In the very cogent introduction Ananda Coomara-awamy comments: "Whoever heard of a trades-unionist striking for the right to make goods of a better quality...
...Reviewed by Virginia True THIS book is an able and eloquent expression of aesthetic revolt against modern mechanism and the profit system...
...They discuss such topics as "The Human Person and Society," "Education For What," "Art and Business," "The Leisure State," and "Who Wants Peace...
...These essays, echoing the concise simplicity of Eric Gill's sculpture and the exact grace of his type design, cover a period from 1918 to 1940, the year of his death...
...Prayer divorced from labor, labor done for the sake of recreation, work for the sake of leisure, leisure for the sake of se//-satisfac-tion...
...One may not agree with Eric Gill that industrialism is the cause of all our ills...
Vol. 8 • December 1944 • No. 51
