There are men who are capable of loving a machine more deeply than they can love a woman. Theyare among the happiest men on earth. This is not a sneer meanly shot from cover at women. It issimply a statement of notorious fact. Men who worry themselves to distraction over the perfectingof a machine are indubitably blessed beyond their kind. Most of us have known such men.Yesterday they were constructing motorcars. But to-day aeroplanes are in the air-or, at any rate, they ought to be, according to the inventors. Watch the ...
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There are men who are capable of loving a machine more deeply than they can love a woman. Theyare among the happiest men on earth. This is not a sneer meanly shot from cover at women. It issimply a statement of notorious fact. Men who worry themselves to distraction over the perfectingof a machine are indubitably blessed beyond their kind. Most of us have known such men.Yesterday they were constructing motorcars. But to-day aeroplanes are in the air-or, at any rate, they ought to be, according to the inventors. Watch the inventors. Invention is not usually theirprincipal business. They must invent in their spare time. They must invent before breakfast, inventin the Strand between Lyons's and the office, invent after dinner, invent on Sundays. See with whatardour they rush home of a night! See how they seize a half-holiday, like hungry dogs a bone! Theydon't want golf, bridge, limericks, novels, illustrated magazines, clubs, whisky, starting-prices, hintsabout neckties, political meetings, yarns, comic songs, anturic salts, nor the smiles that are situatebetween a gay corsage and a picture hat. They never wonder, at a loss, what they will do next. Theirevenings never drag-are always too short. You may, indeed, catch them at twelve o'clock at nighton the flat of their backs; but not in bed! No, in a shed, under a machine, holding a candle (whosepaths drop fatness) up to the connecting-rod that is strained, or the wheel that is out of centre. Theyare continually interested, nay, enthralled. They have a machine, and they are perfecting it. They getone part right, and then another goes wrong; and they get that right, and then another goes wrong, and so on. When they are quite sure they have reached perfection, forth issues the machine out ofthe shed-and in five minutes is smashed up, together with a limb or so of the inventors, justbecause they had been quite sure too soon. Then the whole business starts again. They do not giveup-that particular wreck was, of course, due to a mere oversight; the whole business starts again.For they have glimpsed perfection; they have the gleam of perfection in their souls. Thus their livesrun away. 'They will never fly!' you remark, cynically. Well, if they don't? Besides, what aboutWright? With all your cynicism, have you never envied them their machine and their passionateinterest in i
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