...technologies. They doubted the ultimate advantages of technological creation. As Nathaniel Hawthorne put it: "We who are born into the world's artificial system...man. Art has become a second and stronger nature." 28 In such formulations, the technological arts that Edward Everett praised as uplifting became perverted...

...and an ourside dimension begins. In keeping with just such a sense of space, Hawthorne cautions that "we, who are born into the world's artificial system,...the interpolation of the perverted mind and heart of man."34 Within space in which the line between the domesticated and the wild grows troubled and confused,...

...Adam and Eve" presents an allegorical treatise on the issue announced in its first sentence: "We . . . can never adequately know how little in our present...interpolation of the perverted mind and heart of man" (10:247). To explore this topic, Nathaniel sets the story after the "Day of Doom has burst upon the...

...Hawthorne who felt that his creations had the same vivid and insubstantial effect as shapes in firelight. We who are born into the world's artificial system...much is merely the interpolation of the perverted heart and mind of man.34 In one of the more interesting phases of the American literary tradition,...