...dow, of Etiquette: at intervals the growl of Chapel Organs, like prayer by machinery; proclaiming, as in a kind of horrid diabolic horse-laughter, Van... ...to grow untilled; no man made clayey, or made weary thereby;—unless indeed machinery will do it? Gra- tuitous Tailors and Restaurateurs may start up, ... ...ng mirrors, become a whole Brigand World; and, like a kind of Supernatural Machinery wondrously move the Epos of the Revo- lution. The Brigands are he... ...llets have right hands: in all this, what need were there of Preternatural Machinery? To most people none; but not to French people, in a time of Revo... ...nough of Immortals fighting in its battle-ranks, and never want for Epical Machinery? Be this as it may, the Brigands are clearly got to Paris, in con... ...eport on the Penal Code;’ and reveal therein a cunningly devised Beheading Machine, which shall become famous and world-famous. This is the product of... ...inine derivative name, as if it were his daughter: La Guillotine! “With my machine, Messieurs, I whisk off your head (vous fais sauter la tete) in a t... ...cted vortex, where wisdom could not dwell. Your cun- ningly devised Taxing-Machine has been got together; set up with incredible labour; and stands th... ...hird Estate will get in motion, with the force of all France in it; Clergy-machinery with Noblesse-machinery, which were to serve as beautiful counter...

...f string, and strung out the field. This gave the person running the paint machine something to go by. All he had to do was follow the string, and lif... ...nesium riser will be used in years to come. The king of all bows uses a machined alu- minum riser. Unlike cast magnesium, which has to be poured in...

...the better man. As for this little Petersburg swell, they’re turned out by machinery, all on one pat- tern, and all precious rubbish. But if he were a... ...God, was doing well; but informed him that the buckwheat in the new drying machine had been a little scorched. This piece of news irritated Levin. The... ...d partly invented by Levin. The bailiff had always been against the drying machine, and now it was with suppressed triumph that he announced that the ... ...m, Konstantin Dmitrievitch,” said the bailiff. “I did inform you about the machine.” This question was enough to take Levin back to all the details of...

...dow, of Etiquette: at intervals the growl of Chapel Organs, like prayer by machinery; proclaiming, as in a kind of horrid diabolic horse-laughter, Van... ...to grow untilled; no man made clayey, or made weary thereby;—unless indeed machinery will do it? Gratuitous Tailors and Restaurateurs may start up, at... ...ng mirrors, become a whole Brigand World; and, like a kind of Supernatural Machinery wondrously move the Epos of the Revolution. The Brigands are here... ...llets have right hands: in all this, what need were there of Preternatural Machinery? To most people none; but not to French people, in a time of Revo... ...128 The French Revolution: V ol. One therein a cunningly devised Beheading Machine, which shall become famous and world-famous. This is the product of... ...ine derivative name, as if it were his daugh- ter: La Guillotine! “With my machine, Messieurs, I whisk off your head (vous fais sauter la tete) in a t... ...racted vortex, where wisdom could not dwell. Your cunningly devised Taxing-Machine has been got together; set up with incredible labour; and stands th... ...ird Estate will get in motion, with the force of all France in it; Clergy- machinery with Noblesse-machinery, which were to serve as beautiful counter... ...ter 1.5.II. Mercury de Breze. Now surely were the time for a ‘god from the machine;’ there is a nodus worthy of one. The only question is, Which god? ...

...te broken lines, and Sir Patrick’s softly rugged aged ones, his face looks machine-made and beeswaxed; but his scrutiniz- ing, daring eyes give it lif...

...egion, had been caught and tamed by human cunning, and compelled to turn the machinery of cotton factories. The inhabitants of this valley, in short, ... ... Hawthorne 46 young men and girls to look through the glass orifices of the machine, and proceeded to exhibit a series of the most outra geous scrat...

... and rifles were of the same pattern as Simeon’s, and he invented a flying-machine from which bombs could be thrown into the enemy’s camp. 114 Tolsto... ...uld not even get within shooting distance, while the bombs from the flying-machine carried destruction and terror in their path, completely routing hi...

...oast, have adorned themselves with a couple of hotels and a row of bathing-machines. He walked so far that the shadows had begun to lengthen before he...

...hey believe to be the essence of his godhood, but which is really only the machinery of the love of necessary power which is his mortal weakness. This... ... is reborn as his daughter, uncorrupted by his ambition, unfettered by his machinery of power and his alli- ances with Fricka and Loki. This daughter,... ...it will not be replaced by anarchy. Applied to the industrial or political machinery of modern society, anarchy must al- ways reduce itself speedily t... ... he is upon Alberic, and the more the responsibility of keeping the world- machine in working order falls upon Alberic. Consequently, though Alberic i...

...ony of English numbers than in all that has been written since; there is a machine about a poetical young lady, and another about either Charles or Ja... ...fore I had my holiday, thinking to enjoy it more; and instead of that, the machinery near hand came sundry in my hands! like Murdie’s uniform. However...

...tside of the cup.—ED. 216 Boswell’s Life of Johnson him of a new-invented machine which went without horses: a man who sat in it turned a handle, whi... ... man has his choice whether he will move himself alone, or himself and the machine too.’ Dominicetti being mentioned, he would not al- low him any mer...

... 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...

...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...

...pes still set 80 percent of the world’s text, most of those once-wondrous machines were junked before 2000. 19. Free Self-Learning Laboratories. ... ...xperiences with Gutenberg typography and Mergenthaler‘s wondrous Linotype machine, which allowed for the unprecedented expansion of publishing in th... ...t off, working in a university print shop that made textbooks with offset machines and a new variety of mimeograph that duplicated the original to m... ...ften sent me into composing rooms filled with those towering, typesetting machines‘ clickety-clacks and the acrid odors from their melting pots of m... ... Khan To instill fear in his enemies, Genghis Khan created a propaganda machine that consistently inflated the number of people his warriors kille... ...and cities. Captured engineers directed the building and testing of siege machines which then would be disassembled and carried by horses to battle ... ...lectual culture. She stresses that pioneer print shops—with their new machines and mechanics trained to operate them—served as:  Gathering p... ...780s that Frenchmen in Blanc‘s workshop turned out metal musket parts on a machine. Whitney didn‘t win his legendary patent for interchangeable gun p... ... parts until 1794. Print shops also pioneered the revolutionary use of machinery to maximize employee productivity. In that same capitalistic ...

...ks. -- 18. ?The Eighth Wonder of the World?-Although as late as 1980, Linotypes still set 80 percent of the world’s text, most of those once-wondrous machines were junked before 2000. -- 19. Free Self-Learning Laboratories.-Public libraries give the ordinary citizen access to reading material previously available only to the most elite. Advances in literacy and self-educat...

...neapples under the Dole brand. In 1911, engineer Henry Ginaca invented a machine that revolutionized the industry by peeling and coring 80 pineapp... ...motionless for 5 minutes while lying in a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machine is diffi cult. For some, especially the very young, it’s nearly imp... ...’s Medical Center, has invented a revolutionary system that allows an MRI machine to compensate for slight movements—making this life-saving medical ... ... tissue and place the syringe into a CIS unit in the operating room. The machine washes the fat and adds an enzyme solution that isolates stem cel...

...dists who would dive their bombers into American ships killing those nice American boys. Hitler‘s troops were goose-stepping cogs in a terror machin... ...have been found to be: an assembly line worker, operator of an elevator with push-button controls, typist in a clerical pool, bank guard, copy machin...

...human being is mer t the human being is mer t the human being is mer ely a machine ely a machine ely a machine ely a machine ely a machine ,, ,,, and ... ...e lathes, drills, planers, punches, pol ishers, in a word all the cunning machines of a great factory? Y.M. It could. O.M. What could the stone engin... ...y? Y.M. It could. O.M. What could the stone engine do? Y.M. Drive a sewing machine, possibly—nothing more, perhaps. O.M. Men would admire the other en... ....M. Yes. O.M. But not the stone one? Y.M. No. O.M. The merits of the metal machine would be far above those of the stone one? Y.M. Of course. O.M. Per... ...o the matter” is it your idea to work up to the proposition that man and a machine are about the same thing, and that there is no personal merit in th... ...fining, and so forth. Y.M. You have arrived at man, now? O.M. Yes. Man the machine—man the impersonal en gine. Whatsoever a man is, is due to his ma... ...e borrowed materials together. That was done automatically—by your mental machinery, in strict accordance with the law of that machinery’s con struc... ...law of that machinery’s con struction. And you not only did not make that machinery yourself, but you have not even any command over it. Y.M. This i... ...but that one? O.M. Spontaneously? No. And you did not form that one; your machinery did it for you—automatically and instantly, without reflection or...

... is a more natural way to a league than that. Instead of being made like a machine, the League of Nations may come about like a marriage. The Peace Co... ...The military history of the war has still to be written, the grim story of machinery misunder- stood, improvements resisted, antiquated methods persis... ...t of land, for this reason that every few hundred miles at the longest the machine must come down for petrol. A flying machine with a safe non- stop r... ...irly intelligent men from the tricks of the specialists who work the party machines. We know Mr. Sanity, we want Mr. San- ity, but we are too busy to ... ... easiest, exactest job conceivable. The Cash Register people will in- vent machines to do it for you while you wait. What hap- pens, then, is that eve... ...ds not of selected men but of delegated men, men of intrigue and the party machine, of dodges rather than initiatives, sec- ond-rate men. When Lord Ha... ...ons whose mind has not been subdued either by long discipline in the party machine or by court intrigue, who has continued his education beyond those ... ...er an elaborate preliminary selection of candidates by the two great party machines. And be it remembered that Mr. Wilson is not the first great Presi...

...ing to essence. For this kind of procedural poems one can elaborate mathematical algorithms and implement them in a computer: but, it is preferable a machine with … soul!...

...bed so entirely in problems and calculations that he is a mere reason- ing machine. It is he who wrote a book which is much esteemed and little unders... ...m it with sensation, the consequence would be, either that beasts are mere machines, or that they have a spiritual soul. Methinks it is clearly eviden... ...ks it is clearly evident that beasts cannot be mere 48 Letters on England machines, which I prove thus. God has given to them the very same organs of... ... them to be uninformed with this faculty; consequently beasts are not mere machines. Beasts, according to your assertion, cannot be animated with a sp...

...n the ha rangue, he gurgled out his pursy chuckle of a cough laugh (for the machinery of laughter took some time to get in motion, and seemed crank a... ...look back on it; for my whole Universe, physical and spiritual, was as yet a Machine! However, such a conscious, recognized ground plan, the truest I... ...lace here. Into the Hofrath’s Institute, with its extraordinary schemes, and machinery of Corresponding Boards and the like, we shall not so much as g... ...must live in it the while), what better, what other, than the Representative Machine will serve your turn? Meanwhile, however, mock me not with the na... ...w of Nature that she be constant?’ cries an il luminated class: ‘Is not the Machine of the Universe fixed to move by unalter able rules?’ Probable en... ...he Universe, which no one whom it so pleases can be prevented from calling a Machine, does move by the most unalterable rules. And now of you, too, I ... ...no reason in Nature or in Art why I should: unless, indeed, I am a mere Work Machine, for whom the divine gift of Thought were no other than the terre... ... “Or better, I might call them two boundless, and indeed unexampled Electric Machines (turned by the ‘Machinery of Society’), with batteries of opposi...

...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...

...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 ...

...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...

...come as well as I know that a box of matches will come out of an automatic machine when I put a penny in the slot: you would be ashamed to say any- th... ...class, not to that which employs him. He now gets into the car to test his machinery and put his cap and overcoat on again. T anner takes off his leat... ...son. My business is to do away with labor. You’ll get more out of me and a machine than you will out of twenty laborers, and not so much to drink eith... ...mine. Except, of course, when he is lying on his back in the mud under the machine trying to find out where it has given way. Well, if I don’t give hi... ...is destiny] D’y’mean it? TANNER. I do. STRAKER. When? TANNER. Now. Is that machine ready to start? STRAKER. [quailing] But you can’t— TANNER. [cutting... ...the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all the slaughter of plague, pestilence and famine. The peas- ant... ...eace Man is a bungler. I have seen his cotton factories and the like, with machinery that a greedy dog could have invented if it had wanted money inst... ...im gun, the submarine torpedo boat. There is noth- ing in Man’s industrial machinery but his greed and sloth: his heart is in his weapons. This marvel... .... [argumentative to the last] On the contrary, only by capturing the State machine— THE ANARCHIST. It is going to capture you. THE ROWDY SOCIAL-DEMOCR...

...der into it, through the spout. Then he lighted it, and took this infernal machine into the next room; but he came back immediately and shut the door.... ... more closely than you do, or than I do myself. She knows what a faultless machine I have be- come, the machine of which she makes fun, the machine wh... ...achine of which she makes fun, the machine which is too well wound up, the machine which cannot get out of order—and she knows that I cannot make a mi... ... small disturbance in the imperfect and deli- cate functions of our living machinery, can turn the most light-hearted of men into a melancholy one, an... ... nourishing itself with difficulty on air, herbs, and flesh; it is a brute machine which is a prey to mala- dies, to malformations, to decay; it is br... ...commonplace mother, a human layer and 133 Selected Writings brood mare, a machine of flesh which procreates, without mental care save for her childre...

...ous chieftain in these parts, the Sheikh Sidi el Assif, has a new American machine pistol which fires ten bullets without loadin; and his rifle has si... ...aynflete, in the Cadi’s jurisdiction. As the search will be conducted with machine guns, the prompt return of the travellers to Mogador Har- bor will ...

...e to see a car that flies? One will never know. As the gap between man and machine grows smaller and smaller, we will be exposed to new and exciting i...

...s, produced because they are useful in the continual struggle of the human machine to maintain its environment in a favorable condition, a process inc... ...s superseded by Acts under which newspapers were seized and their printing machinery destroyed by simple police raids a la Russe, and persons arrested... ...my father. He bought what was left of the business—the build- ings and the machinery and things—from the official trustee for enough money to enable m... ...ept forever in the mud by these hogs to whom the universe is nothing but a machine for greasing their bristles and filling their snouts? HECTOR. Are M... ...nerals: they are not dangerous. But one could fire a grapnel and wind in a machine gun or even a tank. I will think it out. MRS HUSHABYE [squeezing th... ...ey shouldn’t do it themselves either. I may not know anything about my own machinery; but I know how to stick a ramrod into the other fellow’s. And no...

... 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...

...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...

...n to admit the hand which was to 45 Thackeray work upon the spring of the machine. “When I am gone,” Father Holt said, “you may push away the buffet,... ...and placed her in a higher sphere. As you have seen the nymph in the opera-machine go up to the clouds at the end of the piece where Mars, Bacchus, Ap...

...e present enterprise had been long laid, and he now only put in motion the machinery, which many years had been prepared for the purpose. Scarcely had... ... of events, which strike like a hand from heaven, into the nicely adjusted machinery of human plans, and carry the con- templative mind to a higher or... ... from the scene; — stopping for a time the whole movement of the political machine, and disappointing all the calculations of hu- man prudence. Yester...

...nd flying far beyond folly, have dared to resuscitate the theory of animal machines. The “dog’s instinct” and the “automaton-dog,” in this age of psy-... ... science, sound like strange anachronisms. An automaton he certainly is; a machine working independently of his control, the heart, like the mill-whee...