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What Is Man? and Other Essays

Mark Twain

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"What Is Man?" is a dialogue between a young man and an older man jaded to the world. It involves ideas of destiny and free will, as well as of psychological egoism. The Old Man asserted that the human being is merely a machine, and nothing more. The Young Man objects, and asks him to go into particulars and furnish his reasons for his position. This collection of short stories covers a wide range of Twain's interests: the serious, the political and the ironically humorous.

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .Moral Sense. It is a large question. Let us finish with what we are about now, before we take it up.

Y.M. Very well. You have seemed to concede that you place Man and the rat on A level. What is it? The intellectual?

O.M. In form—not a degree.

Y.M. Explain.

O.M. I think that the rat's mind and the man's mind are the same machine, but of unequal capacities—like yours and Edison's; like the African pygmy's and Homer's; like the Bushman's and Bismarck's.

Y.M. How are you going to make that out, when the lower animals have no mental quality but instinct, while man possesses reason?

O.M. What is instinct?

Y.M. It is merely unthinking and mechanical exercise of inherited habit.

O.M. What originated the habit?

Y.M. The first animal started it, its descendants have inherited it.

O.M. How did the first one come to start it?

Y.M. I don't know; but . . . Read More

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" ما الإنسان ؟ "

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"ما الإنسان؟"

رحلة فكرية شيقة في أعماق الإنسان من خلال
محادثة طويلة جدلية بين شيخ عجوز وشاب
حول عدة موضوعات مثل الارادة الحرة ،الضمير
الغريزة والتفكير والفطرة

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"إن الدافع الوحيد للإنسان ضمان إرضاء الذات"

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-من المهد إلى اللحد لا يقوم الإنسان بأي عمل إلا

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