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Peculiarly is the Hand the quick and con- 

 fidential servant of the Head even in the mat- 

 ter of gesture, which often tells or emphasizes 

 what the brain is doing. The one indeed is 

 an outer echo of the other and sometimes has 

 to take its place in the language of signs (for 

 instance, in the case of deaf-mutes and of 

 Southern Italians). Thus the Hand becomes 

 a great instrument of association. Indeed 

 automatically the Hand thinks with the 

 orator, the actor, the performer on a musical 

 instrument a second brain-center. But there 

 must be a first center of the kind, in fact the 

 center of the entire system, to which all these 

 differentiated Extremities return for control, 

 and which returns into itself for self-control. 

 So we come to consider the third part of the 

 Formative Process of the Animal, which can 

 only be the Head. 



This is in shape and character the concen- 

 tration of the human organism, indeed of all 

 organisms from the humblest to the highest. 

 It moves toward rotundity through the Verte- 

 brates, even through the Primates. The body 

 becomes sphered in the Head, centralized and 

 rounded off in one of its parts, which is the 

 seat of control, not merely of its own organ- 

 ism but of all Life. If we conceive the total 

 Plant-world and the total Animal-world as 

 one huge living thing, it would have the mi- 



