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(Julius Caesar , Brutus II, i)
If mechanical technology as extension of parts of the
human body had exerted a fragmenting force, psychically and
socially, this fact appears nowhere more vividly than in
mechanical weaponry. With the extension of the central
nervous system by electric technology, even weaponry makes
more vivid the fact of the unity of the human family. The very
inclusiveness of information as a weapon becomes a daily
reminder that politics and history must be recast in the form of
“the concretization of human fraternity.”
This dilemma of weaponry appears very clearly to Leslie
Dewart in his Christianity and Resolution , when he points to the
obsolescence of the fragmented balance-of-power techniques.
As an instrument of policy, modern war has come to mean “the