dompter

Dans les pays industriels les plus avancés, nous avons dompté les forces de la nature et les avons contraintes au service des hommes ; nous avons ainsi multiplié la production à l'infini, si bien qu'actuellement un enfant produit plus qu'autrefois cent adultes.
In the most advanced industrial countries we have subdued the forces of nature and pressed them into the service of mankind; we have thereby infinitely multiplied production, so that a child now produces more than a hundred adults previously did.
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