The Voice of the Machines

An Introduction to the Twentieth Century

BY

Gerald Stanley Lee

Copyright, 1906
by
THE MOUNT TOM PRESS

TO JENNETTE LEE

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Contents

PART I

THE MEN BEHIND THE MACHINES

1. Machines as Seen from a Meadow
2. As Seen through a Hatchway
3. The Souls of Machines
4. Poets
5. Gentlemen
6. Prophets

PART II

THE LANGUAGE OF THE MACHINES

1. As Good as Ours
2. On Being Busy and Still
3. On Not Showing Off
4. On Making People Proud of the World
5. A Modest Universe

ivPART III

THE MACHINES AS POETS

1. Plato and the General Electric Works
2. Hewing away on the Heavens and the Earth
3. The Grudge against the Infinite
4. Symbolism in Modern Art
5. The Machines as Artists
6. The Machines as Philosophers

PART IV

THE IDEAS BEHIND THE MACHINES

1. The Idea of Incarnation
2. The Idea of Size
3. The Idea of Liberty
4. The Idea of Immortality
5. The Idea of God
6. The Idea of the Unseen and the Intangible
7. The Idea of Great Men
8. The Idea of Love and Comradeship