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Hugo Fischer, Karl Marx u.nd sein Verhiiltnis ZIt Staat und Wirtschaft (Jena,
1932), pp. 43-45; the citations are from Kapital (Hamburg, 1921). J.I
[X2a,2]
""The same spirit that constructs philosophic systems in the hrain of philosophers
huilds railroads with the hands of workers.' . .. In the desert of the nineteenth
century, according to Marx, technology is the only sphere of life in which the
human being moves at the center of a thing." Hugo Fischer, Karl Marx u.nd sein
Verhiiltnis zu Staat und Wirtschaft (Jena, 1932), pp. 39-40; the citation of Marx is
apparently from Marx and Engels, Gesammelte Schrij'ten, 184.1-1850 (Stuttgart,
1902), vol. 1, p. 259,15 [X3,1]
On the divine forebears of the charlatan: "The various divine ancestors had by
now [at the end of the eighteenth century] revealed not only prescriptions for
elixirs of life hut also methods of dyeing, indications for spinning silk, and secrets
of firing clay. The industry was mythologized." Grete de Francesco, Die Macht des
Charlatans (Basel