Mises Daily
Author:
Garet Garrett
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[Garet Garrett was a great American writer, a hater of war, and a lover of free enterprise and technology. He wrote this essay in 1944. It is published as part of A Time is Born , newly available in PDF for free download.] There was never any absolute necessity for the machine. Life could exist without it, only, of course on a much smaller