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Gerald Stanley Lee. The Voice of the Machines
The Voice of the Machines
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THE MEN BEHIND THE MACHINES
MACHINES. AS SEEN FROM A MEADOW
AS SEEN THROUGH A HATCHWAY
SOULS OF MACHINES
POETS
GENTLEMEN
PROPHETS
THE LANGUAGE OF THE MACHINES
AS GOOD AS OURS
ON BEING BUSY AND STILL
ON NOT SHOWING OFF
ON MAKING PEOPLE PROUD OF THE WORLD
A MODEST UNIVERSE
THE MACHINES AS POETS
PLATO AND THE GENERAL ELECTRIC WORKS
HEWING AWAY ON THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH
THE GRUDGE AGAINST THE INFINITE
SYMBOLISM IN MODERN ART
THE MACHINES AS ARTISTS
THE MACHINES AS PHILOSOPHERS
IDEAS BEHIND THE MACHINES
THE IDEA OF INCARNATION
THE IDEA OF SIZE
THE IDEA OF LIBERTY
THE IDEA OF IMMORTALITY
II
THE IDEA OF GOD
THE IDEA OF THE UNSEEN AND INTANGIBLE
AN ODE TO THE UNSEEN
An Ode to the Lightning
AN ODE TO THE TELEGRAPH WIRES
AN ODE TO THE WIRELESS
THE IDEA OF GREAT MEN
THE IDEA OF LOVE AND COMRADESHIP
BIRD’S-EYE VIEW OF THIS BOOK
PART ONE
PART TWO
PART THREE
PART FOUR
BY THE SAME AUTHOR
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Gerald Stanley Lee
An Introduction to the Twentieth Century
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If we can find a great hope and a great meaning for the machine-idea in its simplest form, for machinery itself—that is, the machines of steel and flame that minister to us—it will be possible to find a great hope for our other machines. If we cannot use the machines we have already mastered to hope with, the less 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 inspiring ideas and emotions can be and will be connected with machinery, we are taking a stand for the continued existence of modern religion—(in all reverence) the God-machine; for modern education—the man-machine; for modern government—the crowd-machine; for modern art—the machine in which the crowd lives.
If inspiring ideas cannot be connected with a machine simply because it is a machine, there is not going to be anything left in this modern world to connect inspiring ideas with.
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