The Political Automaton Chess-Player
Anon
Genre: | Essay, Drollery |
Subjects: | Amusement, Instruments, Invention, Magic, Charlatanry, Politics, Government, Machinery |
Compares the Prime Minister Robert Peel, a 'great political chess-player' whose political moves are 'suggested entirely by others', to the automaton chess-player, 'one of the wonders of mechanism' whose moves are controlled entirely by M Mouret, a celebrated chess-player. | |
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