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Quote by Edgar Allan Poe
Babbage, and if we choose to call the former a pure machine we must be prepared to admit that it is, beyond all comparison, the most wonderful of the inventions of mankind.
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The speaker says that if the thing referred to as “the former” is treated as a purely mechanical device, it must still be regarded as extraordinarily remarkable—“the most wonderful” human invention. The comparison with Babbage is present, but this excerpt does not make clear what “the former” refers to.
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