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is not just the rejection familiar in a long series of elitist intellectual responses like those of Ruskin, Morris, Marx, Eliot, Lawrence, the Southern Agrarians, Jung, Aldous Huxley, and so on, but an actual change in mass attitudes. Reason and the life of reason have unfortunately for a couple of centuries been largely identified with mechanistic science and the industrial civilization descended from it