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Quotes from The Instinct of Workmanship and the State of the Industrial Arts — Thorstein Veblen

1857–1929 United States

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[H]ere and now, as always and everywhere, invention is the mother of necessity.

The Instinct of Workmanship and the State of the Industrial Arts (1914)

The means whereby this work of Nature is brought to its consummate issue are forces of Nature working under her Laws by the method of cause and effect. The principle, or "law," of causation is a metaphysical postulate; in the sense that such a fact as causation is unproved and unprovable. No man has ever observed a case of causation, as is a commonplace with the latterday psychologists.

The Instinct of Workmanship and the State of the Industrial Arts (1914)

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