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The Human Machine

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The Human Machine

Arnold Bennett

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You operate the most complicated machine ever made and have never read the manual. Bennett supplies it: the brain as a gentleman-at-large, habit-forming by concentration, becoming lord over the noddle. Daily mental engineering in his cheerful, bullying, irresistible style. Take the controls of your own head at last.

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19 chapters

  1. 1THE HUMAN MACHINE
  2. 2ARNOLD BENNETT
  3. 3CONTENTS
  4. 4I TAKING ONESELF FOR GRANTED
  5. 5II AMATEURS IN THE ART OF LIVING
  6. 6III THE BRAIN AS A GENTLEMAN-AT-LARGE
  7. 7IV THE FIRST PRACTICAL STEP
  8. 8V HABIT-FORMING BY CONCENTRATION
  9. 9VI LORD OVER THE NODDLE
  10. 10VII WHAT 'LIVING' CHIEFLY IS
  11. 11VIII THE DAILY FRICTION
  12. 12IX 'FIRE!'
  13. 13X MISCHIEVOUSLY OVERWORKING IT
  14. 14XI AN INTERLUDE
  15. 15XII AN INTEREST IN LIFE
  16. 16XIII SUCCESS AND FAILURE
  17. 17XIV A MAN AND HIS ENVIRONMENT
  18. 18XV L.S.D.

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