For man is not the creature and product of Mechanism; but, in a far truer sense, its creator and producer.
Source: Signs of the Times, in Edinburgh Review, no. 98. (1829, repr. in Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, 1838).
-- Thomas Carlyle, (Dec 4 1795-1881), Scottish essayist, historian; He was considered one of the era's great sages and man of letters; wrote The French Revolution, 1837.