"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…