> "... to deplore the spectacle, among the artisan class, of a workman occupied during his whole life in nothing but... pinheads, we [see] something quite as lamentable in the intellectual class, in the exclusive employment of the human brain in resolving equations... The moral effect is, unhappily, analogous.. a miserable indifference about the general course of human affairs."
- https://philosophicalsociety.com/BonMot13.htm
#LewisMumford quotes this by #Comte in #BasisOfRenwal the last chapter in #ConditionOfMan