The Brown Book

Undated

Overview

Wagner interprets the growth of instruments and specialized sciences as evidence of declining natural perception. He uses spectacles as an example of technology compensating for damaged faculties.

Content

Undated:

Any enrichment of our means of perception via instruments and special sciences merely proves the decay of our natural powers of perception; certainly antiquity (Brahmans etc.) had fewer instruments but clearer senses. — Thus spectacles show that we have ruined our eyes.