"
"It isn't as simple as you think," I pursued seriously (but glad
enough in my heart to have heard Jack laugh--he wasn't given to
laughter at any time). "All sorts of things happen inside you; all
sorts of mechanisms start working: nerves and muscles, of course, but
even in the blood-vessels there's a change of the corpuscles as per
order--you put an insult into the slot and they do the rest.
The levers of the machine--the brakes, clutches and the rest are in
the forebrain: that's where you change gear when you want to struggle
with suppressed emotion, run her slow or let her all out: and that's
what Jack means to do with us before he has finished. Does he want
us to love or to hate?--He'll press a button, and we shall do the
rest, automatically. He will call on a Foreign Minister or an
ambassador and make or avert a European War. He will dictate--"
"He's telling you the most atrocious rubbish," cut in Foe, addressing
Jimmy.
"I am suiting this explanation to the infant mind," said I, "and I'll
trouble you not to interrupt. . . . You may or may not have heard, my
dear child, either at Eton or Oxford, that the brain has two
hemispheres--"
"Just like the globe," said Jimmy brightly.
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