Book/Printed Material The voice of the machines; an introduction to the twentieth century, Copy 1
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Image 1 of Copy 1- Contributor: Lee, Gerald Stanley
- Date: 1906
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Image 2 of Copy 1 Class TS^S^-^ Book 3:1V 6 Copyright N°_ ,*^o8 COPyRIGHT DEPOSIT.- Contributor: Lee, Gerald Stanley
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Image 3 of Copy 1- Contributor: Lee, Gerald Stanley
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Image 4 of Copy 1- Contributor: Lee, Gerald Stanley
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Image 5 of Copy 1- Contributor: Lee, Gerald Stanley
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Image 6 of Copy 1- Contributor: Lee, Gerald Stanley
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Image 7 of Copy 1 The Voice oi the Machines An Introduction to the Twentieth Century BY Gerald Stanley Lee nortbatnptcn, /Dassacbueetts- Contributor: Lee, Gerald Stanley
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Image 8 of Copy 1 LIBRARY of CONGRESS Two CoDies Received DEC 21 906 Copyrlgrtif Entry OUSS O^ XXc, No. COPY B. Copyright, 1906 BY THE MOUNT TOM PRESS IK- Contributor: Lee, Gerald Stanley
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Image 9 of Copy 1 L 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...- Contributor: Lee, Gerald Stanley
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Image 10 of Copy 1- Contributor: Lee, Gerald Stanley
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Image 11 of Copy 1 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...- Contributor: Lee, Gerald Stanley
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Image 12 of Copy 1 IV Contents 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...- Contributor: Lee, Gerald Stanley
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Image 14 of Copy 1- Contributor: Lee, Gerald Stanley
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Image 15 of Copy 1 THE MEN BEHIND THE MACHINES MACHINES. AS SEEN FROM A MEADOW IT would be difficult to find anything in the encyclopedia that would justify the claim that we are about to make,...- Contributor: Lee, Gerald Stanley
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Image 16 of Copy 1 4 The Men Behind the Machines We do not know why a locomotive is beauti- ful. We are perfectly aware that it ought not to be. We have all but been ashamed...- Contributor: Lee, Gerald Stanley
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Image 17 of Copy 1 Machines, As Seen from a Meadow 5 telephone, piercing a thousand sunsets north to south, with the sound of a voice. The night is not more beautiful, hanging its shadow over the...- Contributor: Lee, Gerald Stanley
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Image 18 of Copy 1 II AS SEEN THROUGH A HATCHWAY IN its present importance as a factor in life and a modifier of its conditions, the machine is in every sense a new and unprecedented fact...- Contributor: Lee, Gerald Stanley
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Image 19 of Copy 1 As Seen Through a Hatchway 7 by steam. His food has come through rollers and wheels. The water he drinks is pumped to him by engines. The ice in it was frozen...- Contributor: Lee, Gerald Stanley
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Image 20 of Copy 1 8 The Men Behind the Machines itself said. He looks into the Face of Cir- cumstance. (Sometimes it is the Fist of Circumstance.) The Face of Circumstance is a silent face. It...- Contributor: Lee, Gerald Stanley
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Image 21 of Copy 1 As Seen Through a Hatchway 9 The number of persons who are engaged in consumption outside of association with ma- chinery is equally insignificant. So far as con- sumption is concerned, any...- Contributor: Lee, Gerald Stanley
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Image 22 of Copy 1 lo The Men Behind the Machines the people who will have to live under the roof of machines, the literary definition does not say. It is not the way of literary definitions....- Contributor: Lee, Gerald Stanley
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Image 23 of Copy 1 As Seen Through a Hatchway 1 1 wants the society of his kind, he will have to look down through a hatchway? Or that, if he wants to be happy, he will...- Contributor: Lee, Gerald Stanley
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Image 24 of Copy 1 Ill SOULS OF MACHINES IT does not make very much difference to the machines whether there is poetry in them or not. It is a mere abstract question to the ma- chines....- Contributor: Lee, Gerald Stanley
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Image 25 of Copy 1 Souls of Machines 13 in its religion, there is little to be hoped for in religion. Modern education is a machine. If the principle of machinery is a wrong and in- herently...- Contributor: Lee, Gerald Stanley
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Image 26 of Copy 1 14 The Men Behind the Machines cannot go around it. We cannot destroy it. We are born in the machine. A man cannot move the place he is born in. We breathe...- Contributor: Lee, Gerald Stanley
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Image 27 of Copy 1 Souls of Machines 15 we hope from our other machines our spirit- machines, the machines we have not mastered the better. In taking the stand that there is poetry in machinery, that...- Contributor: Lee, Gerald Stanley
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Image 28 of Copy 1 i6 The Men Behind the Machines whole world lifting itself mightily up, rolling itself along, turning itself over on a great steel pivot, down in Pennsylvania for its days and nights. I...- Contributor: Lee, Gerald Stanley
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Image 29 of Copy 1 IV POETS WHEN, standing in the midst of the huge machine-shop of our modem Hfe, we are informed by the Professor of Poetics that ma- chinery the thing we do our Hving...- Contributor: Lee, Gerald Stanley
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Image 30 of Copy 1 1 8 The Men Behind the Machines poet than any writer of verses can ever expect to be who does not expect anything of this same age he Hves in not even...- Contributor: Lee, Gerald Stanley
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Image 31 of Copy 1 Poets 19 grim, silent, patient creating of life. He shall be seen living with retorts around him, loomed over by machines shadowed by weariness to the men about him half comrade, half...- Contributor: Lee, Gerald Stanley
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Image 32 of Copy 1 V GENTLEMEN THE truest definition of a gentleman is that he is a man who loves his work. This is also the truest definition of a poet. The man who loves his...- Contributor: Lee, Gerald Stanley
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Image 33 of Copy 1 Gentlemen 21 that these men touch, as with some strange and immortal joy from out of them, has the thrill of beauty in it, and exultation and wonder. They cannot have it...- Contributor: Lee, Gerald Stanley
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Image 34 of Copy 1 22 The Men Behind the Machines life of the world, and constitutes the only literal aristocracy the world has ever had. It may be set down as a fundamental prin- ciple that,...- Contributor: Lee, Gerald Stanley
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Image 35 of Copy 1 Gentlemen 23 That the inventor is in all essential respects a poet toward the machine that he has made, it would be hard to deny. That, with all the apparent prose that...- Contributor: Lee, Gerald Stanley
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Image 36 of Copy 1 24 The Men Behind the Machines world. The thing that was not, that now is. after all the praying with his hands iron and wood and rivet and cog and wheel is...- Contributor: Lee, Gerald Stanley
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Image 37 of Copy 1 Gentlemen 25 flying out to the Night, until there was nothing but a dull red murmur and the falling of smoke. Michael hobbled back to his mansion by the rails. He put...- Contributor: Lee, Gerald Stanley
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Image 38 of Copy 1 26 The Men Behind the Machines see IT withal but if we love it enough and stand close to it enough, we breathe the secret and touch in our lives the secret...- Contributor: Lee, Gerald Stanley
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Image 39 of Copy 1 Gentlemen 27 the minor poets understand why it is that a sailor, when he is old and bent and obHged to be a landsman to die, does something that holds him close...- Contributor: Lee, Gerald Stanley
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Image 40 of Copy 1 28 The Men Behind the Machines rather be without a Hfe (so long as he has his nerve) than to have to Hve one without an engine, and when he cUmbs down...- Contributor: Lee, Gerald Stanley
- Date: 1906