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Read & copy the quotation
“My sole aim is to insist that every man shall perfect his machine to the best of his powers, not to the best of somebody else's powers.”
- Source
- The Human Machine
- Date
- 1908
Meaning of “My sole aim is to insist that every…”
Improvement is measured against one’s own capacities rather than another person’s scale; Bennett rejects imitation as the standard for developing character and conduct.
Where does it come from?
The Human Machine, later discussion of self-training. “Machine” is Bennett’s extended metaphor for the person’s mental and emotional habits; the line is not a biomedical model.
