“The Old Man and the Young Man had been conversing. The Old Man had asserted that the human being is merely a machine, and nothing more.

The Young Man objected, and asked him to go into particulars and furnish his reasons for his position.

Old Man. What are the materials of which a steam-engine is made? Young Man. Iron, steel, brass, white-metal, and so on.”

Mark Twain’s immortal work

What is Man? in its original language…