バートランド・ラッセル『ヒューマン・ソサエティ-倫理学から政治学へ』第2部[「情熱の葛藤」- 第2章- Human Society in Ethics and Politics, 1954, Part II, chapter 3
* 原著:Human Society in Ethics and Politics, 1954* 邦訳書:バートランド・ラッセル(著),勝部真長・長谷川鑛平(共訳)『ヒューマン・ソサエティ-倫理学から政治学へ』(玉川大学出版部,1981年7月刊。268+x pp.)
『ヒューマン・ソサエティ』第2部「情熱の葛藤」- 第3章「先見思考と技術」n.14 |
Human Society in Ethics and Politics, 1954, part II: The Conflict of Passions, chapter 3: Forethought and Skill, n.14 | |||
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Industrial skill has very much increased the tendency, which began with agriculture, to lengthen the process from a want to its satisfaction. An animal cannot allow more than a few hours to elapse in the activity of seeking food, whereas an agriculturist, even of the most primitive sort, allows several months to elapse between the first activity in food production and the final eating of the food. In the modern world, the process is enormously longer and more complex. The farmer uses machinery which has to be transported by road or rail from an urban centre. The machinery itself is made from raw materials which equally have to be transported. The farmer, as a rule, does not consume his own crop. It goes to a mill and thence, very likely, to some distant country. In this long intricate combination of forethought and skill, there is, throughout, a dependence upon an elaborate social and economic organization, which may break down, with disastrous consequences, in time of war. The journey from primitive hunger and food-gathering to modern agriculture and food-distribution is so long, and the result is so complex, that it is scarcely possible to see and remember the natural impulses out of which the whole system has grown by the application of intelligence. |