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...meatpacking industry. He was also a playwright whose works for the stage reflected the same progressive viewpoints found in his other writing. In The Machine, published as part of Sinclair's 1912 collection Plays of Protest, Socialist activists show a rich man's daughter the truth about the society in which she has been raised. (Summary by wildemoose)...

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...d to the world. It involves ideas of destiny and free will, as well as of psychological egoism. The Old Man asserted that the human being is merely a machine, and nothing more. The Young Man objects, and asks him to go into particulars and furnish his reasons for his position. This collection of short stories covers a wide range of Twain's interests: the serious, the polit...

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...tage, it would be well if we were to change our standpoint and examine our machinery at the point of application. A rock-drilling ma- chine may be exc... ...iticism which is science, than a brigand at large on a mountain has to the machinery of law and police, by which finally he will be hanged. Among such... ... end of the chain is apt to find the charity no more than a rather inhuman machine. Shining devotees there are, but able, courageous, and vigorous peo... ...le will say that all this is no more than a proposal to make man better by machinery, that you cannot reform the world by Board of T rade Regula- tion... ...with every precaution of publicity and with the most ingeniously impartial machine that could be in- vented, to select a Jury by lot, a Jury sufficien... ...d qualified by secret cults; it is a clogged and an ill-made and dishonest machine, but we have a dread, in part instinctive, in part, no doubt, the s... ...ere that process of examination may not take us; many more people can take machines to pieces than can put them together again. Mr. Grant Allen used t... ...or ever. T o write a fruitful book or improve a widely 183 H G Wells used machine is just as much paternity as begetting a son. The last temporary ra... ...-service enlistment levies, drawn from this general supply, and of all the machinery of communication, provisioning, and so forth. They will not be ne...

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..."Ready Fire Aim." Resources dwindle as aqua farming Region 5 Spaceport Terminus pushes maximum population density, and the balance between man and machine collapses in "Bloom." The fractured politics of the fractured 1920s Aether Age leaves a sheriff struggling to find the truth in "The More Things Change." Would Ace Rango rather be locked in battle with snarling ...

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...ht, but once in awhile you shall pass a five-storied building humming with machinery that winds up an everlasting wire cable, and the initiated will t... ... ican P ican Politics olitics olitics olitics olitics I HAVE BEEN WATCHING machinery in repose after reading about machinery in action. An excellent g... ...com- panion rent a room in a business quarter, and, aided by a typewriting machine, copy MSS. at the rate of six annas a page. Only a woman can operat... ...S. at the rate of six annas a page. Only a woman can operate a typewriting machine, because she has served apprenticeship to the sewing ma- chine. She... ...d fingers, jammed the stuff into the cans, which slid down some marvellous machine forthwith, soldering their own tops as they passed. Each can was ha... ...y. Inside, on a floor ninety by forty, the most civilized and murderous of machinery. Outside, three footsteps, the thick-growing pines and the immens... ...was trouble in that place—moaning, splashing, gur- gling, and the clank of machinery. A spurt of boiling water jumped into the air, and a wash of wate... ...ons of dollars in the year, and scores of factories turn out plow-gear and machinery by steam. Scores of daily papers do work which Hukm Chund and the... ...rd. The East is not the West, and these men must continue to deal with the machinery of life, and to call it progress. Their very preachers dare not r...

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...th alternative job opportunities but on the other by importing harvesting machines etc., and using it had still made these agriculture labourer a vi... ...ilure of agriculture F 6 - Failed Government policies like advent of machinery, no value of small scale industries, weavers problem, match fac... ...re of agriculture and above all failed government policies like advent of machinery, no value of small scale industries, weavers problem, match fact... ...ack of labour opportunities with failed government polices like advent of machinery which replaces human labour like weaver problem and match factor... ... unconcern over their development in any plans so only introduction of machine for harvest etc has crippled agricultural labourer. Now we pr... ...rural uneducated men about awareness of HIV/AIDS for CSWs have become the machinery of spreading about HIV/AIDS but these rural migrant labourers fa... ...240. 58. Kosko, B., “Fuzzy Cognitive Maps,” International Journal of Man-Machine Studies, 34 (1986) 65-75. 59. Kosko, B., “Fuzzy Entropy and Condit...

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...their message). By doing so, it restricts choice and it tilts the electoral machinery in favor of the haves. V oters with money and education are a... ... like to refer to themselves in mechanical terms, as efficient automata or machines. Seriousness and sense of intrusion and coercion – The narcissi...

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... between cells is what makes a healthy body such a perfect and beautiful machine. A healthy body has such an effective maintenance mechanism that i...

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...lessed import monopolies on every manner of contraband from building materials and machine spare parts to cars, televisions and beauty products. Th...

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...ent at features of American life that differ from his own, not least the freedom (and attraction) of American women. However, he scorns the political machines that made a mockery of American democracy, and while exhibiting the racist attitudes that made him controversial in the 20th century concludes “It is not good to be a negro in the land of the free and the home of the...

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... administration, that might take the case be- fore the Council of state,—a machine very difficult indeed to move. After the second day Jacquet was obl...

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...othing but a means for his happiness, or—how shall I say?—an instrument, a machine for his happiness, and that for my whole life, my whole life, and t... ...ail, rickety, bent and already de- praved. The stuffy workshop, the din of machinery, work all day long, the vile language and the drink, the drink—is...

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...y in unweaving the maze, has its source in a misconception of the original machinery by which Christianity moved, and of the initial principle which c... ...served (which not to have observed is excused, perhaps, by the too complex machinery of hooks and eyes between the text and the notes involving a doub... ...ncert, yet all combine unconsciously to one end—lock like parts of a great machine into one system—conspire to the unity of a very elaborate scheme, w... ...: to drop boldly—alas! that is to die. Meantime, what need of this eternal machinery, that eter- nally is breaking like ropes of sand? Or of this eart... ...f daylight, that the whole body of the arts and sciences composes one vast machinery for the irritation and development of the human intellect. For th... ...; so much, and neither more nor less. That is, from total ignorance of the machinery by which language moves, they fancy that every idea and word whic... ... to be ascripti metallo, sold by nature to the mine, and indorsed upon its machinery for the whole term of their lives; in whom, there- fore, it was a... ...obably at that time unprec- edented, but also as having the most extensive machinery then known to human experience for publishing, that is, for 96 T... ...l purposes, even where it might not origi- nally have been so applied. The machinery which binds to- gether any secret society, as being always availa...

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... through long idleness, some little space was requisite before my intellectual machinery could be brought to work upon the tale with an effect in any ... ... to be a fixture there. In fact, this scaffold constituted a portion of a penal machine, which now, for two or three generations past, has been merely ... ...uisition. He soon manifested his fa miliarity with the ponderous and imposing machinery of antique physic; in which every remedy contained a multitud... ...ly infer that, besides the legitimate action of his own conscience, a terrible machinery had been brought to bear, and was still operating, on Mr. Dim...

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...chiefly , but the lungs are not safe. He has been whirling his unfortunate machine faster and faster, till no wonder the mainspring has all but broken...

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...othing but a means for his happiness, or—how shall I say?—an instrument, a machine for his happiness, and that for my whole life, my whole life, and t... ...ail, rickety, bent and already de- praved. The stuffy workshop, the din of machinery, work all day long, the vile language and the drink, the drink—is... ... of them? I hate that America already! And though they may be wonderful at machinery , every one of them, damn them, they are not of my soul. I love R...

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...s Dividing When I Peruse the Conquer'd Fame We Two Boys Together Clinging A Promise to California Here the Frailest Leaves of Me No Labor-Saving Machine A Glimpse A Leaf for Hand in Hand Earth, My Likeness I Dream'd in a Dream What Think You I Take My Pen in Hand To the East and to the West Sometimes with One I Love To a Western Boy Fast-Anchor'd Eternal O Lo...

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... for the fledgling military organization. The slant of this de-classified material is chiefly written communications between the FBI and the military machine in 1947. Correspondence herein spans July and August of 1947 which will forever remain as the beginning of serious first-hand UFO experience in the annals of history. (Introduction by Roger Melin)...

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...stic data and construction of the infantry platoon’s armament.......34 Non-Assignment 1, Meeting 2...........................35 Knowledge about the machine gun – small .....................35 The description of the principal components ....................36 Non-incidents of shooting and their non- remediation.................36 The control and the preparation for fir...

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...o. Just talk about it?" The words ground into Alex's stomach like a sausage machine. "Is he all right?" "I don't know. I'm waiting word from my t... ...cture. It showed the anger and fear of its citizens. It was the American news machines that portrayed the propaganda of a nation in mourning. Soule’...

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...the flat, feeling cold and used. Exactly four minutes later a motorbike roared up bearing a leather-clad, helmeted Martian who jumped off, locked his machine and panted over. ‘I’m not too late am I? She sounded pretty awesome.’ ‘No, you’re fine. Rather you than me, though.’ Upstairs, water was still splashing around in the bathroom. ‘Is that him?’ Frances yelled. ‘Yes...

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...ased me any further, I would switch you off understand...” “Rather than thanking me you have started complaints. The humans are always rude to the machines they made.” Computer digital voice complained. This mini robot computer is an amazing invention of Dr. Jabran which has been developed and programmed in such a unique way that it counsels him in difficult times li...

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...f scale being allowed for) as they would upon a steam plow, or a threshing machine. T o these stand opposed another kind of political reasoners, who a... ...ical reasoners, who are so far from assimilating a form of government to a machine, that they regard it as a sort of spontaneous prod uct, and the sc... ...adopt it. On the other hand, it is also to be borne in mind that political machinery does not act of itself. As it is first made, so it has to be work... ...ead of a security against misgovernment, is but an additional wheel in its machinery. Besides these moral hindrances, mechanical difficulties are 10 ... ... independent, or held together by a loose tie like the feudal: because the machinery of authority was not perfect enough to carry orders into effect a... ...he power which is to keep the engine going must be sought for outside the machinery; and if it is not forthcoming, or is insufficient to surmount the... ...ore propriety, since there is no part of public business in which the mere machinery, the rules and con trivances for conducting the details of the o... ...f government, their good qualities supply the moving force which works the machinery. This leaves, as the other con stituent element of the merit of ... ...her con stituent element of the merit of a government, the quality of the machinery itself; that is, the degree in which it is adapted to take advant...

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...and ever rising. Even manufacture no longer sufficed. There upon, steam and machinery revolutionised industrial production. The place of manufacture ... ...tition, to all the fluctuations of the market. Owing to the extensive use of machinery and to divi sion of labour, the work of the proletarians has l... ... and consequently, all charm for the workman. He becomes an appendage of the machine, and it is only the most simple, most monotonous, and most easily... ...esto” 9 creases, the wage decreases. Nay more, in proportion as the use of machinery and division of labour increases, in the same proportion the bu... ...n crease of the work exacted in a given time or by in creased speed of the machinery, etc. Modern industry has converted the little workshop of the ... ...estroy imported wares that com pete with their labour, they smash to pieces machinery, they set factories ablaze, they seek to restore by force the v... ...n the ranks of the proletariat are more and more equalised, in proportion as machinery obliterates all distinctions of labour, and nearly everywhere r... ... wages of the workers ever more fluctuat ing. The unceasing improvement of machinery, ever more rapidly developing, makes their livelihood more and ... ...which he laments, is, for the enormous majority, a mere training to act as a machine. But don’t wrangle with us so long as you apply, to our intended ...

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...ill 69 fought, causes tried, and even churches erected and prayers said, by machinery—by automatons in human form—it would be a considerable loss to ... ...starved specimens of what nature can and will produce. Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescri... ...would be greater, the more efficiently and scientifically the administrative machinery was constructed—the more skilful the arrangements for obtaining... ...ll men no great thing can really be accomplished; and that the perfection of machinery to which it has sacri ficed everything, will in the end avail ... ...e end avail it nothing, for want of the vital power which, in order that the machine might work more smoothly , it has preferred to banish. End. On Li...

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... by trade, which it had derived from the discovery. Now the exportation of machinery comes within the case which we have just described. If the fact b... ...bed. If the fact be, that by allowing to foreigners a participation in our machinery, we enable them to produce any of our leading articles of export,... ...tain that unless we possess as great an advantage in the production of the machinery itself as we have in the production of other articles by means of... ...achinery itself as we have in the production of other articles by means of machinery, the permitting of its exportation would alter to our disadvantag... ...ithstanding what has now been observed, restrictions on the exportation of machinery are not, in our opinion, justifiable, either on the score of inte... ...probation as to enforce observance of it. More- over, a country possessing machines should consider that if a similar advantage were extended to other... ...ould gain by their improvements in those which it buys. The exportation of machinery may, however, be a proper subject for adjustment with other natio... ...changed for the articles which conduce directly to that end. But the food, machinery, &c, which will ultimately be purchased with the goods in my ware... ...be ruined: and if during the high prices they have built mills and erected machinery, they will be likely to repent at leisure. In the present state o...

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... to me by making me, in this portion of my activity, merely one wheel in a machine, the whole of which had to work together. As a speculative writer, ... ...e that the description so often given of a Benthamite, as a mere reasoning machine, though extremely inapplicable to most of those who have been desig... ...ved in the practicability, nor in the beneficial operation of their social machinery, I 97 John Stuart Mill felt that the proclamation of such an ide... ...repelled from Mr. Hare’s plan by what they think the complex nature of its machinery. But any one who does not feel the want which the scheme is inten...

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...domains. It may be asked, perhaps, what has so long kept this dis- jointed machine from falling entirely to pieces? The answer is obvious: The weaknes... ...entary powers upon Congress, as they are now constituted; and ei- ther the machine, from the intrinsic feebleness of its struc- ture, will moulder int... ...ore democratic, but the soul that animates it will be more oligarchic. The machine will be enlarged, but the fewer, and often the more secret, will be... ... objection, that it could tend to increase the complexity of the political machine, and to add a new spring to the government, the utility of which wo... ...ing new provisions and precautions to the new state of things, to keep the machine from running into disorder. In this respect, therefore, there is no...

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...d the “Midsummer Night’s Dream” existed before the “Rape of the Lock,” the machinery in it would have proclaimed Pope a man of creative imagination. A... ...llery, the most finished nonsense, and one of the most exquisitely-managed machineries in the language. His “Eloisa and Abelard,” a poem beautiful and... ... to the best example, one and entire, as contained in the proposition, the machinery is a continued chain of allegories, setting forth the whole power... ...s.’ Smithfield was the place where Bartholomew Fair was kept, whose shows, machines, and dramatical entertainments, formerly agreeable only to the tas...

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...r robots of the 5th company had taken up position and the war drones moved to their positions. Most, actually almost all, of the fighting was done by machines. Humans were too frail and too slow to be effective in most situations. Humans came into action when the machines had to be maintained and repaired. There were robots for those purposes, too, but often they turned ou...

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...Wells considered this book one of his most important, a natural follow-up to such works as his Man of the Year Million and The Time Machine. His goal was to get people to think and act in new ways. The book starts with a look at how humans get along socially and how they carry out their business ventures. It then discusses how these elements influence oth...

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...r robots of the 5th company had taken up position and the war drones moved to their positions. Most, actually almost all, of the fighting was done by machines. Humans were too frail and too slow to be effective in most situations. Humans came into action when the machines had to be maintained and repaired. There were robots for those purposes, too, but often they turned ou...