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machine age en · PROPN
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An era, from approximately 1880 to 1945, characterised by the rapid development and widespread use of machinery and industrial technology.
The spread of popular education in conjunction with the coming of the machine age and its concomitants, have together sufficed to create a rubber-stamped mentality. The popular Press, the cinema and the radio have resulted in the emergence of a public, the component members of which, with exceptions so rare as to be negligible, think alike and function alike.
1941, George Ryley Scott, Phallic Worship: A History of Sex and Sex Rites in Relation to the Religions of All Races from Antiquity to the Present Day, London: T. Werner Laurie, page 5:
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