New Critique II, p. 257 (1955)

Already in its restrictive retrocipatory structure the modal meaning of cultural implies the normative historical principle of the call to win the control over nature in its objective cultural potentialities. This principle appeared to be founded in the Divine ordinance of the creation (Gen. 1:26-28). Though the fall into sin deprived man of the fullnes of this power, the principle itself has retained it modal validity in the development of culure. It is positivized in technical indutry in the sense intended in the Greek word techne, i.e. formative control.