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Title: The Voice of the Machines
An Introduction to the Twentieth Century
Author: Gerald Stanley Lee
Release Date: January 15, 2007 [EBook #20361]
Language: English
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The Voice of the Machines
An Introduction to the Twentieth Century
BY
Gerald Stanley Lee
The Mount Tom Press
Northampton, Massachusetts
COPYRIGHT, 1906
BY
THE MOUNT TOM PRESS
TO JENNETTE LEE
... "Now and then my fancy caught
A flying glimpse of a good life beyond--
Something of ships and sunlight, streets and singing,
Troy falling, and the ages coming back,
And ages coming forward."...
Contents
PART I
THE MEN BEHIND THE MACHINES
I.--Machines as Seen from a Meadow
II.--As Seen through a Hatchway
III.--The Souls of Machines
IV.--Poets
V.--Gentlemen
VI.--Prophets
PART II
THE LANGUAGE OF THE MACHINES
I.--As Good as Ours
II.--On Being Busy and Still
III.--On Not Showing Off
IV.--On Making People Proud of the World
V.--A Modest Universe
PART III
THE MACHINES AS POETS
I.--Plato and the General Electric Works
II.--Hewing away on the Heavens and the Earth
III.--The Grudge against the Infinite
IV.--Symbolism in Modern Art
V.--The Machines as Artists
VI.--The Machines as Philosophers
PART IV
THE IDEAS BEHIND THE MACHINES
I.--The Idea of Incarnation
II.--The Idea of Size
III.--The Idea of Liberty
IV.--The Idea of Immortality
V.--The Idea of God
VI.--The Idea of the Unseen and the Intangible
VII.--The Idea of Great Men
VIII.--The Idea of Love and Comradeship
PART ONE
THE MEN BEHIND THE MACHINES
I
MACHINES. AS SEEN FROM A MEADOW
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