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From the old-world point of view, the American had no mind; he had an economic thinking-machine which could work only on a fixed line. The American mind exasperated the European as a buzz-saw might exasperate a pine forest. The English mind disliked the French mind because it was antagonistic, unreasonable, perhaps hostile, but recognized it as at least a thought.
He is to learn farming with old Roberts. He has a broad back and the advantage of not being a thinking-machine." "He may have made the best choice, McGregor." "No, sir," said the Doctor, "my son has the best of it." John laughed. "I don't think I should like either farm or medicine."
She would cut off his spines, but at once they grew out again; she could do nothing with him at all! But then she would protest "It's not so bad as that, Thyrsis. You have your work." "Yes, that's it," he would answer. "My work! I'm just a thinking-machine. I'm fit for nothing else. And here I am married!" He would say that, and he would mean it; he would try to act upon the conviction.
No cut-and-dried maxim ever yet was fit to guide men through their mysterious existence; the formalist always ends by becoming a bungler, and the most highly-developed man, if he is content to be no more than a thinking-machine, is harmful to himself and harmful to the community which has the ill-luck to harbour him.
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