[Necessity of Complex Mechanism]
Anon
Genre: | Miscellaneous |
Subjects: | Machinery, Time |
Illustrates, using the example of a watch, the aphorism that 'To attain complex and difficult ends by simple means, whether in physics or politics, falls not to the lot of man'. |
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