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gland and secreted into the blood, to regulate and coordinate
the functions of distant organs.”
This peculiarity about the electric form, that it ends the
mechanical age of individual steps and specialist functions, has
a direct explanation. Whereas all previous technology (save
speech, itself) had, in effect, extended some part of our bodies,
electricity may be said to have outered the central nervous
system itself, including the brain. Our central nervous system is
a unified field quite without segments. As J. Z. Young writes in
Doubt and Certainty in Science: A Biologist’s Reflections on the
Brain (Galaxy, Oxford University Press, New York, 1960):
It may be that a great part of the secret of the
brain’s power is the enormous opportunity provided for
interaction between the effects of stimulating each part