England

The birth of the machine. Abstraction in activity.

Industrial production, Labour.

The capacity to work despite local conditions.

Ability to sequence things. Ordering. The industrial division of labour (under capitalism).

Inability to interpenetrate things. Lack of Insight, wisdom.

Greece

The birth of philosophy. Abstraction in thought.

Agriculture and Tourism. Land and Sea. Seasons. The natural division of labour (under capitalism).

Half time practical activity, half time thought. The two poles of the dialectic.

Lack of the mediating agent: Labour. Therefore: Inability to overcome the two poles.

When the above find unity in their contradiction,
the new will be born.