Length3h 56m
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Excerpt: "It would be difficult to find anything in the encyclopaedia that would justify the claim that we are about to make, or anything in the dictionary. Even a poem—which is supposed to prove anything with a little of nothing—could hardly be found to prove it; but in this beginning hour of the twentieth century there are not a few of us—for the time at least allowed to exist upon the earth—who are obliged to say (with Luther), "Though every tile on the roundhouse be a devil, we cannot say otherwise—the locomotive is beautiful." As seen when one is looking at it as it is, and is not merely using it. As seen from a meadow. We had never thought to fall so low as this, or that the time would come when we would feel moved—all but compelled, in fact—to betray to a cold and discriminating world our poor, pitiful, one-adjective state. We do not know why a locomotive is beautiful. We are perfectly aware that it ought not to be. We have all but been ashamed of it for being beautiful—and of ourselves. We have attempted all possible words upon it—the most complimentary and worthy ones we know—words with the finer resonance in them, and the air of discrimination the soul loves. We cannot but say that several of these words from time to time have seemed almost satisfactory to our ears. They seem satisfactory also for general use in talking with people, and for introducing locomotives in conversation; but the next time we see a locomotive coming down the track, there is no help for us. We quail before the headlight of it. The thunder of its voice is as the voice of the hurrying people. Our little row of adjectives is vanished. All adjectives are vanished. They are as one. Unless the word "beautiful" is big enough to make room for a glorious, imperious, world-possessing, world-commanding beauty like this, we are no longer its disciples. It is become a play word. It lags behind truth. Let it be shut in with its rim of hills—the word beautiful—its show of sunsets and its bouquets and its doilies and its songs of birds. We are seekers for a new word. It is the first hour of the twentieth century. If the hill be beautiful, so is the locomotive that conquers a hill. So is the 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 city, than the electric spark pushing the night one side, that the city may behold itself; and the hour is at hand—is even now upon us—when not the sun itself shall be more beautiful to men than the telegraph stopping the sun in the midst of its high heaven, and holding it there, while the will of a child to another child ticks round the earth. "Time shall be folded up as a scroll," saith the voice of Man, my Brother. "The spaces between the hills, to ME," saith the Voice, "shall be as though they were not." The voice of man, my brother, is a new voice. It is the voice of the machines."
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GenreGeneral Fiction, Literary Classics
Length3 hrs 56 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateNov 22, 2019
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1THE MEN BEHIND THE MACHINES
2MACHINES. AS SEEN FROM A MEADOW
3AS SEEN THROUGH A HATCHWAY
4SOULS OF MACHINES
5POETS
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6GENTLEMEN
7PROPHETS
8THE LANGUAGE OF THE MACHINES.
9AS GOOD AS OURS
10ON BEING BUSY AND STILL
11ON NOT SHOWING OFF
12ON MAKING PEOPLE PROUD OF THE WORLD
13A MODEST UNIVERSE
14THE MACHINES AS POETS
15PLATO AND THE GENERAL ELECTRIC WORKS
16HEWING AWAY ON THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH
17THE GRUDGE AGAINST THE INFINITE
18SYMBOLISM IN MODERN ART
19THE MACHINES AS ARTISTS
20THE MACHINES AS PHILOSOPHERS
21IDEAS BEHIND THE MACHINES
22THE IDEA OF INCARNATION
23THE IDEA OF SIZE
24THE IDEA OF LIBERTY
25THE IDEA OF IMMORTALITY
26THE IDEA OF GOD
27THE IDEA OF THE UNSEEN AND INTANGIBLE
28THE IDEA OF GREAT MEN
29THE IDEA OF LOVE AND COMRADESHIP
30BIRD’S-EYE VIEW OF THIS BOOK
31PART ONE
32PART TWO
33PART THREE
34PART FOUR
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