[374] this fact. And even the assembly line can largely reduce, in the big factories, so that the mechanical things which still--when I first came to this country, I saw it in the Ford factory--were done by human beings which in this moment ceased to be human beings, now can be done by machines. Now this praise of the machine^a shall precede my criticism of objectivation^b THROUGH the machine. But I don't want to appear to you as a cheap romantic critic of the machine age, as it is very often to be found today in booklets, and even in larger books, which do not take into consideration the blessing, of which the curse is the other side.