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What Is Man?: And Other Essays
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher Createspace Independent Pub
Publication date July 30, 2015
Pages 302
Binding Paperback
Book category Adult Fiction
ISBN-13 9781502890610
ISBN-10 1502890615
Dimensions 0.69 by 6 by 9 in.
Original list price $14.99
Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: "[...] O.M. The merits of the metal machine would be far above those of the stone one? Y.M. Of course. O.M. Personal merits? Y.M. Personal merits? How do you mean? O.M. It would be personally entitled to the credit of its own performance? Y.M. The engine? Certainly not. O.M. Why not? Y.M. Because its performance is not personal. It is the result of the law of construction. It is not a merit that it does the things which it is set to do—it can't help doing them. O.M. And it is not a personal demerit in the stone machine that it does so little? Y.M. Certainly not. It does no more and no less than the law of its make permits and compels it to do. There is nothing personal about it; it cannot choose. In this process of "working up to the matter" is it your idea to work up to the[...]".

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