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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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