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Souls in Business

Simpson, Clinton | May 14, 1930 issue

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The article focuses on the book "The Company," by Edwin Seaver. This book is one of the most significant volumes of fiction by an American writer. Seaver has attempted altogether successfully, a new realistic interpretation of the American industrial era. He is concerned not with machines, but with human values, he conceives the "mechanization" and "standardization" of American lives as due not so much to domination by the tools as to broken faith with the high purposes and responsibilities that they conceive for themselves and for human life in general.

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COMPANY, The (Book); SEAVER, Edwin; FICTION; INDUSTRIALIZATION; VALUES; MECHANIZATION; UNITED States
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