He believed in a meaningless, mechanical, and uncaring universe that human beings, with their naturally limited faculties, could never fully understand.

Guha writes movingly about love which can offer a way out but which is constantly thwarted by a mechanical universe.

This is not a mechanical universe.

According to Jack, human beings are no more than cogs in the wheels of a mechanical universe.

Lovecraft believed in a purposeless, mechanical, and uncaring universe that human beings, with their limited faculties, could never fully understand, and the cognitive dissonance caused by this leads to insanity.

Those of us who have traded it for a mechanical universe may have gotten closer to the actual state of things, but we have paid a substantial price.

The detector man led the way through a dark and weightless mechanical universe.

In this manner he attempts to rescue identity, to prevent himself from being reduced to mere function in a mechanical universe.

How do we reconcile our feeling of free will with the idea that we might be mechanical components of a mechanical universe?

All his writings are passionate rejections of the idea of a mechanical or random universe, instead proclaiming the deep spiritual meaning of human life founded on God's all-governing grace and love.