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Mark Twain

What Is Man? and Other Essays

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“What Is Man?” is a short story by American writer Mark Twain, published in 1906. It is a dialogue between a Young Man and an Old Man regarding the nature of man. The title refers to Psalm 8:4, which begins “what is man, that you are mindful of him…”.
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    , you must free the metal from its obstructing prejudicial ones by education—smelting, refining, and so forth
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      are gold men, and tin men, and copper men, and leaden mean, and steel men, and so on—and each has the limitations of his nature, his heredities, his training, and his environment.
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        Everything has its limit—iron ore cannot be educated into gold."
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