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]

PART 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]

PART ONE

THE MEN BEHIND THE MACHINES

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