What Is Man? and Other Essays by Mark Twain
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As Concerns Interpreting the Deity
Concerning Tobacco Taming the Bicycle Is Shakespeare Dead? WHAT IS MAN? I a. Man the Machine. b. Personal Merit [The Old Man and the Young Man had been conversing. The Old Man had asserted that the human being is merely a machine, and nothing more. The Young Man objected, and asked him to go into particulars and furnish his reasons for his position.] Old Man. What are the materials of which a steam-engine is made? Young Man. Iron, steel, brass, white-metal, and so on. O.M. Where are these found? Y.M. In the rocks. O.M. In a pure state? |
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