SEE contemporary

With this apparatus Pythagoras made his experiments, and it was then called a “monochord”, but now that I have altered it, I call it a “In personal, family, and communal life, in politics, science, art, philosophy, and religion, in short, in everything entering into the process of the ordinary life of a contemporary man, everything from beginning to end does itself, and not a single one of these “victims of contemporary civilization” can “do” anything. BTG XLVIII