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Sub-Section D.7: Periodicals, Journals, Pamphlets used by Merton (some with marginalia)

Record Series: 60: Mumford, Lewis. "Pioneers In Mechanization ['How the Benedictine (and Cistercian) monasteries of medieval Europe were pioneers in use of machinery…']" Chapter 12 of The Myth of the Machine by Lewis Mumford, 263-272 [with Merton's marginalia].

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Monastic and religious life |
Mumford, Lewis, 1895-1990 |
Technology |

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Folders are arranged alphabetically by series. Series names start with author's last name or title of journal in absence of a single author.

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Box#-FF#Item#DateNotesFirst Lines
2 - 1 1967 Marginalia: contains underlining and other marks by Thomas Merton. From cover of copy: "How the Benedictines (and Cistercian) monasteries of medieval Europe were pioneers in use of machinery for the balanced life of work/prayer/leisure. «CHAPTER TWELVE [-] Pioneers in Mechanization [-] 1: THE BENEDICTINE BLESSING [-] Now we come to one of the curious paradoxes of history»

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