Richard G. Petty, MD

When We All First Became Part of a Giant Brain

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“Then there is electricity, the demon, the angel, the mighty physical power, the all-pervading intelligence!” …

“Is it a fact — or have I dreamt it — that, by means of electricity, the world of matter has become a great nerve, vibrating thousands of miles in a breathless point of time? Rather, the round globe is a vast head, a brain, instinct with intelligence! Or, shall we say, it is itself a thought, nothing but a thought, and no longer the substance which we deemed it!”     

–Nathaniel Hawthorne (American Writer, 1804-1864)   


“The House of the Seven Gables (Dover Thrift Editions)” (Nathaniel Hawthorne)

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