The Voice of the Machines An Introduction to the Twentieth Century

I.--Plato and the General Electric Works II.--Hewing away on the Heavens and the Earth III.--The Grudge against the Infinite IV.--Symbolism in Modern Art V.--The Machines as Art...

I.--The Idea of Incarnation II.--The Idea of Size III.--The Idea of Liberty IV.--The Idea of Immortality V.--The Idea of God VI.--The Idea of the Unseen and the Intangible VII.-...

It would be difficult to find anything in the encyclopedia that would justify the claim that we are about to make, or anything in the dictionary. Even a poem--which is supposed...

One is always hearing it said that if a thing is to be called poetic it must have great ideas in it, and must successfully express them. The idea that there is poetry in machine...

I have an old friend who lives just around the corner from one of the main lines of travel in New England, and whenever I am passing near by and the railroads let me, I drop in...

The grasshopper may be called the poet of the insects. He has more hop for his size than any of the others. I am very fond of watching him--especially of watching those two enor...

I. The word beautiful in 1905 is no longer shut in with its ancient rim of hills, or with a show of sunsets, or with bouquets and doilies and songs of birds. It is a man's word,...

I. I have heard it said that if a thing is to be called poetic it must have great ideas in it and must successfully express them; that the language of the machines, considered a...

III. IV. Machinery has poetry in it because in expressing the man's soul it expresses the greatest idea that the soul of man can have--the man's sense of being related to the In...

Note.--The present volume is the first of a series which had their beginnings in some articles in the _Atlantic_ a few years ago, answering or trying to answer the question, "Ca...