MACHINERY

Related Subjects: Electricity, Industry, Invention, Mass Production, Power, Science, Steam

1. Only the most machine-like race could win custom. After a while every country felt it had to be drilled or become extinct. Some made themselves into machines to enter the English market, some to preserve their own markets. Even the indolent Oriental is getting keyed up, and in another fifty years the Bedouin of the desert will be at his desk and the wild horseman of Tartary will be oiling his engines.—A. E., Cooperation and Nationality
   

2. A tool is but the extension of a man's hand and a machine is but a complex tool; and he that invents a machine augments the powcr of man and the well-being of mankind.—H. W. BEECHER
   

3. Man is a tool-using animal. Feeblest of bipeds! . . . Nowhere do you find him without tools. Without tools he is nothing; with tools he is all.—CARLYLE
   

4. It is the Age of Machinery, in every outward and inward sense of that word.—CARLYLE, Signs of the Times
   

5. The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men.—HAVELOCK ELLIS, Little Essays on Love & Virtue
   

6. Armed with his machinery man can dive, can fly, can see atoms like a gnat; he can peer into Uranus with his telescope, or knock down cities with his fists of gunpowder.—EMERSON, Lectures
   

7. Stop the machines and half the people in the world would perish in a month.—RAYMOND FOSDICK
   

8. One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.—ELBERT HUBBARD, The Philistine
   

9. Let us not despise machinery in our zeal for fullness of life any more than we should dream that machinery can ever automatically grind out perfection of living.—JULIAN HUXLEY, I Believe
   

10. Don't throw a monkey-wrench into the machinery.—PHILANDER JOHNSON
    

11. It is never the machines that are dead. It is only the mechanically-minded men that are dead.—GERALD STANLEY LEE, Crowds
    

12. It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.—J. S. MILL, Principles of Political Economy
    

13. As I read history the machine age taken in its entirety has actually freed, educated, and inspired mankind, rather than enslaved it!—ROBERT A. MILLIKAN,
    Alleged Sins of Science
    

14. The prosy modern piston imitates the Olympian deities; it transforms a chaos into a cosmos.—MICHAEL PUPIN
    

15. Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful, and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous, and loathed because they impose slavery.—BERTRAND RUSSELL, Sceptical Essays
    

16. You're not a man, you're a machine.—BERNARD SHAW, Arms and the Man
    

17. There will be little drudgery in this better ordered world. Natural power harnessed in machines will be the general drudge.—H. G. WELLS, Outline of History
    

18. The citizen's entire life is exaggerated but sterilized by machinery—and medicine: were motor oil and castor oil to dry up, the city would cease to function and promptly perish.—FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT, The Disappearing City