Quick Answer. Voltaire wrote Candide as a satire of the then-prevalent philosophical optimism advanced by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. Voltaire, moved by contemporary events like the Seven Years' War and the 1755 Lisbon earthquake, felt that optimism was a naive way of viewing the world.
Neurons carry impulses from one place to another, around the many parts of the nervous system. They connect receptors to the central nervous system and also connect one part of the nervous system to another, for example in the brain and spinal cord.
What part of a neuron carries nerve impulses away from the cell body? The axon carries the signal away from the neuron, while the dendrite carries the signal to the neuron. The cell body of a neuron (a nerve cell) receives signals fr â¦ om its neighbors; when prompted thereby to send a signal of it's own, the axon (an extension protruding from the body) propagates that signal electrochemically via an ion pump to other neurons at the terminal synapse (a small gap between one neuron and the next).