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amplification, is a constant drive for more power. Most of our
bodily stresses are interpreted as needs for extending storage
and mobility functions, such as occur, also, in speech, money,
and writing. All manner of utensils are a yielding to this bodily
stress by means of extensions of the body. The need for
storage and portability can readily be noted in vases, jars, and
“slow matches” (stored fire).
Perhaps the main feature of all tools and machines—
economy of gesture—is the immediate expression of any
physical pressure which impels us to outer or to extend
ourselves, whether in words or in wheels. Man can say it with
flowers or plows or locomotives. In “Krazy Kat,” Ignatz said it
with bricks.
One of the most advanced and complicated uses of the