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It Is A Tragedy Of The First Magnitude That Millions Of People Have Ceased To Use Their Hands As Hands. Nature Has Bestowed Upon Us This Great Gift Which Is Our Hands. If The Craze For Machinery Method Continues, It Is Highly Likely That A Time Will Come When We Shall Be So Incapacitated And Weak That We Shall Begin To Curse Ourselves For Having Forgotten The Use Of The Living Machines Given To Us By God.

-Mahatma Gandhi

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It Is A Tragedy

Mahatma Gandhi

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It Is A Tragedy Of The First Magnitude That Millions Of People Have Ceased To Use Their Hands As Hands. Nature Has Bestowed Upon Us This Great Gift Which Is Our Hands. If The Craze For Machinery Method Continues, It Is Highly Likely That A Time Will Come When We Shall Be So Incapacitated And Weak That We Shall Begin To Curse Ourselves For Having Forgotten The Use Of The Living Machines Given To Us By God.

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