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"What Is Man?", published by Mark Twain in 1906, 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. (Summary by Wikipedia and John Greenman)

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■ WHAT IS MAN?   AND OTHER ESSAYS
- CONTENTS
01 WHAT IS MAN?
I  a. Man the Machine. b. Personal Merit
II  Man’s Sole Impulse?the Securing of His Own Approval
III  Instances in Point
IV  Training
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VI  Instinct and Thought
02 THE DEATH OF JEAN
03 THE TURNING-POINT OF MY LIFE
04 HOW TO MAKE HISTORY DATES STICK
05 THE MEMORABLE ASSASSINATION
06 A SCRAP OF CURIOUS HISTORY
07 SWITZERLAND, THE CRADLE OF LIBERTY
08 AT THE SHRINE OF ST. WAGNER
09 WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS
10 ENGLISH AS SHE IS TAUGHT
11 ON GIRLS
12 A SIMPLIFIED ALPHABET
13 AS CONCERNS INTERPRETING THE DEITY
14 CONCERNING TOBACCO
15 THE BEE
16 TAMING THE BICYCLE
17 IS SHAKESPEARE DEAD?
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