Excerpt: IIIfrom "The mountain-snob is a Wordsworthian fruit;" to "He tears his clothes and doesn't shave his chin," Ⓒ
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Technics and Civilization • Section II of Auden's poem references Mumford's "Eotechnic Phase", although this is a misquotation for Mumford's third phase, and should be "Neotechnic Phase" (Eotechnic is the first phase of water and wood, Neotechnic is the third phase of electricity and alloys).
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