Цитаты из книги автора E. M. Forster The Machine Stops

The Machine has been most merciful.'

'I prefer the mercy of God.'

You know that we have lost the sense of space. We say 'space is annihilated', but we have annihilated not space, but the sense thereof. We have lost a part of ourselves.

Beware of first- hand ideas

which will see the French Revolution not as it happened, nor as they would like it to have happened, but as it would have happened, had it taken place in the days of the Machine

Wessex lies above the room in which we are talking now

Man is the measure. That was my first lesson. Man's feet are the measure for distance, his hands are the measure for ownership, his body is the measure for all that is lovable and desirable and strong

By these days it was a demerit to be muscular. Each infant was examined at birth, and all who promised undue strength were destroyed

science retreated into the ground, to concentrate herself upon problems that she was certain of solving.

The sun had conquered, yet it was the end of his spiritual dominion

the sides of the vestibule seemed to melt together, as do the passages that we see in dreams, the lift vanished