What Is Man? and Other Essays. Марк Твен

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       Mark Twain

      What Is Man? and Other Essays

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      EAN 4057664125620

Table of Contents

       WHAT IS MAN?

       I

       II

       III

       IV

       V

       After an Interval of Days

       VI

       Instinct and Thought

       THE DEATH OF JEAN

       THE TURNING-POINT OF MY LIFE

       I

       HOW TO MAKE HISTORY DATES STICK

       THE MEMORABLE ASSASSINATION

       A SCRAP OF CURIOUS HISTORY

       SWITZERLAND, THE CRADLE OF LIBERTY

       Interlaken, Switzerland, 1891.

       AT THE SHRINE OF ST. WAGNER

       Bayreuth, Aug. 2d, 1891

       WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS

       ENGLISH AS SHE IS TAUGHT

       In the appendix to Croker's Boswell's Johnson one finds this anecdote

       ON GIRLS

       A SIMPLIFIED ALPHABET

       AS CONCERNS INTERPRETING THE DEITY

       I

       CONCERNING TOBACCO

       THE BEE

       TAMING THE BICYCLE

       IS SHAKESPEARE DEAD?

       (from My Autobiography)

       I

       II

       III

       FACTS

       IV

       CONJECTURES

       V

       VI

       VII

       VIII

       SHAKESPEARE AS A LAWYER (1)

       IX

       X

       THE REST OF THE EQUIPMENT

       XI

       XII

       IRREVERENCE

       XIII

       THE END

WHAT IS MAN?

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I

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      a. Man the Machine. b. Personal Merit

      [The Old Man and the Young Man had been conversing. The Old Man had asserted that the human being is merely a machine, and nothing more. The Young Man objected, and asked him to go into particulars