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...ter self, the elementary sub- stance of the self, the outer world. And the machine is the great reconstructed selfless power. Hence the active worship... ...is He who works for all alike, without consideration. And His image is the machine which dominates and cows us, we cower before it, we run to serve it... ...r: the confusing of the two ends. We warlike tigers fit ourselves out with machinery, and our blazing tiger wrath is 36 D. H. Lawrence emitted throug... ...inery, and our blazing tiger wrath is 36 D. H. Lawrence emitted through a machine. It is a horrible thing to see ma- chines hauled about by tigers, a... ...till more horrible thing to see tigers caught up and entangled and torn in machinery. It is horrible, a chaos beyond chaos, an unthinkable hell. The t... ...le, a chaos beyond chaos, an unthinkable hell. The tiger is not wrong, the machine is not wrong, but we, liars, lip-servers, duplicate fools, we are u... ...gland you have the wealth—les richesses— you have the mineral coal and the machines, vous savez. Here we have the sun—’ He lifted his withered hand to... ...he smiled, in histrionic triumph. But his triumph was only histrionic. The machines were more to his soul than the sun. He did not know these mecha- n... ... common property, and no man is distinguished by it. He wanted ma- chines, machine production, money, and human power. He wanted to know the joy of ma...

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...ac unfortunate,” exclaimed the herb-doc- tor retreating. “Regular infernal machine!” “Look ye,” cried the other, stumping after him, and with his horn... ...rthy boy, I hope?” “Oh, very! I am now started to get me made some kind of machine to do the sort of work which boys are supposed to be fitted for.” “... ... familiar cordiality into his air, and said: “So you are going to get some machine made to do your work? Philan- thropic scruples, doubtless, forbid y... ...you will have neither man nor boy, bond nor free, truly, then some sort of machine for you is all there is left. My desires for your success attend yo... ...r, I’m now on the road to get me made 114 The Confidence-Man some sort of machine to do my work. Machines for me. My cider-mill-does that ever steal ... ... My corn-husker— does that ever give me insolence? No: cider-mill, mowing- machine, corn-husker—all faithfully attend to their business. Disinterested... ...ven were a kind of Washington patent-office museum—oh, oh, oh!— as if mere machine-work and puppet-work went to heaven— oh, oh, oh! Things incapable o... ...og ex- cels him. Hence these thousand new inventions—carding 115 Melville machines, horse-shoe machines, tunnel-boring machines, reaping machines, ap... ...orse-shoe machines, tunnel-boring machines, reaping machines, apple-paring machines, boot-blacking ma- chines, sewing machines, shaving machines, run-...

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...9 Balzac will be as great as you now are small; but you must not break the machine by which we coin money. I grant you all you will excepting such blu... ...in the street led the chief of the police to the discovery of the infernal machine. Well, if we were to go to-night in a hackney coach to Monsieur de ... ...e was a philosopher. And besides, a spy, whatever grade he may hold in the machinery of the police, can no more return to a pro- fession regarded as h... ...nsequence, who will sooner or later be one of the motor powers of the huge machine of government. You will speak of the police as a statesman should, ... ... statesman should, admiring everything, the Prefet included. The very best machines make oil-stains or splutter. Do not be angry till the right moment... ...ind me in full fig, dressed in your gifts, for I am for life your pleasure-machine, “Esther.” 182 Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life At the Bourse the Ba... ...ing, Asie came in a cab to the Quai Malaquais, and found the stoker of the machine smoking in his room, and reconsidering all the points of the situat... ... month and not a penny more, and the hire of a carriage. But what is it? A machine such as they hire out for a third-rate wedding to carry an epicier ... ...u looking for?” asked Blondet. “For the spring one must touch to stop this machine,” said Florine. “Do you play for twenty francs a point?” “I will pl...

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..., and bore at its right eye the most offensively disproportionate piece of machinery—sole master and pro- prietor of that Midshipman, and proud of him... ...o be- lieve there had been some mistake in the application of the Peruvian machinery, and that all her waters of gladness and milk of human kindness, ... ... a varnished board, as contractor for the cleansing of railway chimneys by machinery . T o and from the heart of this great change, all day and night,... ... capacious mouth two fingers of each hand, and with the assistance of that machinery whistled, with astonishing shrillness, to some pigeons at a consi... ...le, with which the Major daily scorched himself; to say nothing of strange machines out of which he spirited unknown liquids into the Major’s drink. B... ... to let everything about me go on, day by day , unquestioned, like a great machine—that was its habit and mine—and to take it all for granted, and con...

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...lue, is more tenderly cared for than when it was a perfect and inestimable machine. “I triturated, I infused, I distilled it myself in these very room...

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...ad any skill as a Boxer, even in his Buoyant Boyhood Bathed from a Bath ing machine at Bognor, Bangor, Bournemouth, Brighton, or Broadstairs, like a ...

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... world as if he had just disentangled himself from some intricate piece of machinery. For about half an hour both remained in the cabin, where the mat... ...y exported from the Society Islands to Sydney. It is used in lamps and for machinery, being much cheaper than the sperm, and, for both purposes, bette... ...nder the very roof. The only piece of furniture was the “stocks,” a clumsy machine for keeping people in one place, which, I believe, is pretty much o... ...ded to “hanna-par,” or secure us, for the night. The upper tim- ber of the machine being lifted at one end, and our ankles placed in the semicircular ... ...sided, and now, not a pound of the article is raised. About the same time, machinery for weaving was sent out from London; and a factory was started a... ...be admitted to work: yet, in six months, not a boy could be hired; and the machinery was knocked down, and packed off to Sydney. It was the same way w... ...said Zeke, quite briskly, “I guess you and Paul had better try the ‘barrel-machine’—come along, I’ll fix ye out in no time”; and, so saying, he waded ... ...ack to the house, bidding us follow. Wondering what upon earth the “barrel-machine” could be, and rather suspicious of it, we limped after. On arrivin... ...was under an immense shed of bamboos. Here we saw several clumsy pieces of machinery for breaking the cane; also great 257 Melville kettles for boili...

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...membered whole sentences, and many: on one of his runs, this active little machine, quick- ened by motion to fire, revived the audible of years back; ... ...ongly incline to her view, that he put himself into harness to join with a machine going the dead contrary way of her welfare; and thereby wrote himse... ... electrical elo- quence. They have no answer for her, save an index at the machine pushing them on yet farther under the enemy’s line of fire, where t... ... his thoughts upon the training of our English to be something besides the machinery of capitalists, and upon the country as a blessed mother instead ... ...T rojans; Parliamentary Olympus, ennobled brewers, nasal fanatics, all the machinery to hand. Keep a straight eye on the primary motives of man, you’l...

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... _5 He frowned, as if to frown had been the trick Of his machinery, on the advocates Presenting the defences, which he tore And thre... ...ve that it is not necessary to consider Hell and the Devil as supernatural machinery. The whole scene of my epic is in ‘this world which is’—so Peter ... ...with sublime Archimedean art To breathe a soul into the iron heart Of some machine portentous, or strange gin, Which by the force of figured spells mi... ...Lie bills and calculations much perplexed, With steam-boats, frigates, and machinery quaint _80 T raced over them in blue and yellow paint. Th...

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...have mark’d OPPRESSION, terror-pale, Since, thro’ the windings of her dark machine, Thy steady eye has shot its glances keen — And bade th’ All-lo...

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...d that one particularly, were abhorrent to his cold, precise but admirably balanced mind. He was, I take it, the most perfect reasoning and observing machine that the world has seen, but as a lover he would have placed himself in a false position. He never spoke of the softer passions, save with a gibe and a sneer. They were admirable things for the observer--excellent for...

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...bly balanced mind. He was, I take it, the most perfect reasoning and observing machine that the world has seen, but as a lover he would have placed hi... ...I have a hundred a year in my own right, besides the little that I make by the machine, and I would give it all to know what has become of Mr. Hosmer ... ...seemed to come from me, but when they were typewritten he always felt that the machine had come between us. That will just show you how fond he was of... ... the typewritist presses against the table, was beautifully defined. The sewing machine, of the hand type, leaves a similar mark, but only on the left ... ...tics, but those are the more obvious.” “We do all our correspondence with this machine at the office, and no doubt it is a little worn,” our visitor an... ...ould be nearer the mark. I simply want your opinion about a hydraulic stamping machine which has got out of gear. If you show us what is wrong we shal... ...ve not yet done what I came for. I cannot possibly leave until I have seen the machine.’ “ ‘It is not worth your while to wait,’ she went on. ‘You can... ...d to business, then,’ said he. ‘Mr. Ferguson and I will take you up to see the machine.’ “ ‘I had better put my hat on, I suppose.’ “ ‘Oh, no, it is i... ...e we compress it. But never mind that. All we wish you to do is to examine the machine and to let us know what is wrong with it.’ “We went upstairs to...

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...g, calm and decided, great in his resolution, and consequently carrying with him a tenfold dose of that potent fluid which the shocks of mind cause to... .... The man with the feathers went up to the stone, stooped, slipped his hands under the face lying upon the ground, stiffened his Herculean muscles, an...

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...urvived. Unfortunately the legs began to refuse their service to this bony machine. During the last five or six months that this weakness had been fel...

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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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...ughly, and made for the third. His motions were those of a perfectly oiled machine. He pro- ceeded up the length of the room, varying his procedure on... ...s of cheeks, eyes like cool keys—his heart always with the Sea. The little Machine-Fixer (le petit bonhomme avec le bras cassé as he styled himself, r... ...giants. I am afraid it was more or less as giants that B. and I pitied the Machine-Fixer—still this was not really our fault, since the Machine-Fixer ... ... we liked him—and if we could in some often ri- diculous manner assist the Machine-Fixer I think we nearly always did. The assistance to which I refer... .... The assistance to which I refer was wholly spiri- tual; since the minute Machine-Fixer’s colossal self-pride eliminated any possibility of material ... ...Belgians in whom I have ever felt the least or slightest interest; for the Machine-Fixer might have been a Polak or an Idol or an Esquimo so far as hi... ... his nationality affected his soul. By and large, that was the trouble—the Machine-Fixer had a soul. Put the bracelets on an ordinary man, tell him he... ...is gentle disposition in a slight degree protected him from La Misère. The Machine-Fixer was lost. By nature he was tre- mendously sensible, he was th... ...elves and the unspeakable cleanness of Liberty. B. recalls that the little Machine-Fixer said or hinted that he had been either a socialist or an anar...

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... This was fully illustrated by the life upon our own plantation. The whole machinery of slavery was so constructed as to cause labour, as a rule, to b... ...p to the very door of the cabin. In these cabin homes I often found sewing-machines which had been bought, or were being bought, on instalments, frequ... ...nstalments. One fork, and a sixty-dol- lar organ! In most cases the sewing-machine was not used, the clocks were so worthless that they did not keep c... ...aiting at Gray Gables to- day, to send the electric spark that started the machinery of the Atlanta Exposition, a Negro Moses stood before a great aud... ...w numbers eighty-six. This force is so organized and subdi- vided that the machinery of the school goes on day by day like clockwork. Most of our teac...

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...cted through its paper-mills with the art of typography in Paris, the only machinery in use was the primitive wooden invention to which the language o... ... made of marble, literally deserved its name of “impression-stone.” Modern machinery has swept all this old-world mechanism into oblivion; the wooden ... ...ner, I am opposed to your replacing these presses by your cursed cast-iron machinery, that wears out the type. You in Paris have been making such a to... ...ents. Sechard senior living at a distance, far from the work- shop and the machinery which possessed such a fascination for him, reminding him, as it ... ...c- tive and industrious men of business would have bought new type and new machinery, and made an effort to secure or- ders for cheap printing from th... ...he two camps detested the other the more cordially. Un- der the Empire the machinery worked fairly smoothly, but the Restoration wrought both sides to... ...se they were invented in Italy by Aldus of Venice. Before the invention of machine-made paper, which can be woven in any length, the largest sized she... ...the best paper in the world. Well, here in Europe the work must be done by machinery; machinery must take the place of cheap Chinese labor. If we coul...

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...youth becom- ing through the needs of his country part of a great fighting machine was presented with an earnestness 47 Joseph Conrad of purpose, a s... ...eep the competitors for the privilege of improving the nigger (as a buying machine) from flying prema- 92 Notes on Life and Letters turely at each ot... ..., conscious of an enormous following, the clumsy swaying of the tall black machine, the chanting of the surpliced clergy at the head, the flames of ta... ...I was taken into the sheds. I walked respectfully round and round a lot of machines of all kinds, and the more I looked at them the more I felt someho... ... galloped me across a vast expanse of open ground to the water’s edge. The machine on its carriage seemed as big as a cot- tage, and much more imposin... ...er so angry and disgusted with them as during that minute or so before the machine took the water. As to my feelings in the air, those who will read t...

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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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...es in the dusk. Their steady march was like the progress of 7 Hawthorne a machine, that would roll irresistibly over everything in its way. Next, mov... ...g a village as three cotton factories and a slitting mill can make it. The machinery was not in motion, and but a few of the shop doors unbarred, when... ... terrible loquacity as more than compensated for the silence of the cotton machines, which refrained from their usual din out of respect to the deceas... ...f the riddle be not already guessed, a few words will ex- plain the simple machinery by which this “coming event” was made to “cast its shadow before.... ...pisco- palian and suspected Catholic was grotesquely incased in the former machine while a fellow-criminal, who had boister- ously quaffed a health to...

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...is labor, were the currents in the streams and in the air we breathe. Rude machinery, propelled by water power, had been invented; sails to propel shi... ...application of stream to propel vessels against both wind and current, and machinery to do all manner of work had not been thought of. The instantaneo... ...ed by water. Some of the steamers that had got below were injured in their machinery, so that they were only useful as barges towed by those less seve... ...; better than any European sol- diers, because they not only worked like a machine but the machine thought. European armies know very little what they... ... near to the fort as it was safe to run. She was then propelled by her own machinery to within about five hundred yards of the shore. There the clockw... ... you to push promptly and to live upon the country, and destroy railroads, machine shops, etc., not to build them. Take Mo- bile and hold it, and push... ... owns and cities grew during the war. Inventions were made in all kinds of machinery to increase the products of a day’s labor in the shop, and in the... ...il, with a large number of prisoners and a large quantity of war material, machine shops, etc., to be disposed of by the victors. T uscaloosa, Montgom... ... would have proved their equal in a great battle. The armies of Europe are machines; the men are brave and the officers capable; but the majority of t...

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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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...e light, cool, and practical. Madame Lebrun was busily engaged at the sewing machine. A little black girl sat on the floor, and with her hands worked ... ...le black girl sat on the floor, and with her hands worked the treadle of the machine. The Creole woman does not take any chances which may be avoided ... ...g by the precision and frequency with which he turned the leaves. The sewing machine made a resounding clatter in the room; it was of a ponderous, by ... ...ehicle and started the horse off at a gallop. Madame Lebrun went back to the machine, crimson with annoy ance. Victor was the younger son and brother... ...Clatter, clatter, bang, clatter! “I have a letter somewhere,” looking in the machine drawer and find ing the letter in the bottom of the workbasket. ... ...ever overtaking her. The little negro girl who worked Madame Lebrun’s sewing machine was sweeping the galleries with long, absent minded strokes of th... ... the mornings to Madame Lebrun’s room, braving the clatter of the old sewing machine. She sat there and chatted at intervals as Robert had done. She g... ...reet of the Cheniere; the old fort at Grande Terre. I’ve been working like a machine, and feeling like a lost soul. There was nothing interesting.” Sh... ...t at Grande Terre. I’ve been working with a little more comprehension than a machine, and still feeling like a lost soul. There was nothing interestin...

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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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...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...