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over and over again. Through the discovery yesterday of
the railway, the motor car and the aeroplane, the physical
influence of each man, formerly restricted to a few miles,
now extends to hundreds of leagues or more. Better still:
thanks to the prodigious biological event represented by
the discovery of electromagnetic waves, each individual
finds himself henceforth (actively and passively)
simultaneously present, over land and sea, in every corner
of the earth.
People of literary and critical bias find the shrill vehemence of
de Chardin as disconcerting as his uncritical enthusiasm for the
cosmic membrane that has been snapped round the globe by
the electric dilation of our various senses. This externalization
of our senses creates what de Chardin calls the “noosphere” or
a technological brain for the world. Instead of tending towards