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TO some, in particular to the young reared more or less exclusively in an urban environment, the rising hum of the machine age is as music in the ear—enticing, exciting, novel. Contemplation of mechanical achievement induces a pleasing impression of man's inventiveness, his sense of finding ways and means, his ability to triumph over all kinds of difficulties in the interest of utility.
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Field Studies in Britain. Nature 155, 739–740 (1945). https://doi.org/10.1038/155739a0
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