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Van Loon's law appears to be a poorly attributed statement drawn from a book published in 1929. It may originate in Hendrik Willem van Loon.[1]
"The amount of mechanical development will always be in inverse ratio to the number of slaves that happen to be at a country’s disposal."[2]
Attributed as quoted in: Stuart Chase; Men and Machines; (The Macmillan Company, N. Y.; 1929).[3][4]
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