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Show HUMAN BEING AS A FACTORY Writing In Atlantic Monthly, Gerald Stanley Lee Made a Remarkably Comprehensive Comparison. A human being Is a kind of factory. The engine and the works and all the various machines aro kept In the basement, and he sends down orders to them from time to time, and they do the work which has been conceived con-ceived up in headquarters. He expects ex-pects the works down lelow to keep on doing these things without his taking tak-ing any particular notice of them, whllo he occupies his mind, as the uwnpetent head of a factory should, with the things that are new and different dif-ferent and special, and that bis mind alone can do; the things which, at least in their present initial formative forma-tive or creative stage, no machines as yet have been developed to do, and which can only be worked out by the man up in the headquarters, himself, personally, by the handiwork of his own thought Tbe more a human being develops, tbe more delicafe, sensitive, strong tnd efficient, the more spirit-Informed, once for all, the machines In the basement base-ment are. As he grows, the various subconscious arrangements for discriminating, dis-criminating, assimilating, classifying material, for pumping up power, light, and beat to headquarters, all of which can be turned on at will, grow more masterful every year. They are found til slaving away for him, dimly, down In the dark, while he sleeps. They hand him up. In his very dreams, new tnd strange powers to live and to know with Gerald Stanley Lee, in the Atlantic. |