Why did Carlyle criticize the Mechanical Age?
The Mechanical Age, with its relentless focus on machines, utilitarianism, and endless, soulless labour, threatened to extinguish the very essence of humanity. It fostered a spirit of calculation over creation, of outward appearance over inner worth. This mechanization extended to social and political life, reducing individuals to cogs in a vast, indifferent system, devoid of spiritual purpose or heroic aspiration. It was a world of 'gospel of Mammon,' where profit and efficiency supplanted virtue and meaning.
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