silently-revolving

Updated: May 20, 2025

Now these vast powers were always there no law of nature was broken, nor any new one introduced, when they were utilised to lighten man's labours and multiply his energies; all that has happened is that man has discovered existing laws and harnessed them to his use, and once more the real force motrice resides not in those silently-revolving engines that generate the electric current, but in the mind that devised and controls them.

Joseph Warschauer - Problems of Immanence: studies critical and constructive