CONFORMITY WITH PLAN 343 



rule of probability and without regard to the functions of 

 the whole. 



Nevertheless we see that this free company does not form 

 merely a people-unity, but also a function-unity, which is 

 able to carry on like clockwork. So, even if invisible, there 

 must be pegs and sockets there, for only a framework will 

 ensure the trustworthy cooperation of the separate parts. 



Let us make use of a very simple illustration. Two 

 blacksmiths are working at the same rate with their hammers 

 on a piece of iron. We can show that the sound of the first 

 man's hammer, as it hits the iron, releases the action of striking 

 by the second. If we realise that each of the men is sur- 

 rounded by a world-as-sensed and a world of action, then it 

 is obvious that the rhythmic cooperation of the two comes 

 from the deed in the world of action of the first appearing 

 as an indication in the world-as-sensed of the second, and, 

 by stimulation of the steering-apparatus focussed on this 

 activity, producing the same action of striking in his world 

 of action also. This again serves as indication in the world-as- 

 sensed of the first blacksmith ; and so it goes on. One effect 

 of the action of the first blacksmith, namely, the sound, 

 fits like a peg exactly into the socket of the world-as-sensed 

 of the other, which is concentrated on the reception of this 

 sound. If the sound-reception by the second man is diverted 

 by any circumstance, external or internal, then the rhythmical 

 stroke of the hammer ceases. 



This example explains to us very completely how the frame- 

 work is constituted in all human beings who are collaborating. 

 Performance in the world of action of the one worker always 

 serves as peg for the socket in the world-as-sensed of the next. 

 In this way we are enabled to consider the machine of the 

 community as though it were a wheel-work, in which a peg 

 on one cog-wheel fits into a socket in the next, so that the 

 whole mechanism gets going. 



