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Causes and Course of Organic Evolution 



In the higher phases of stimulation toward the moral act, 

 therefore, at least four social individuals — the rescuer, the 

 child, his child, another father — become linked insensibly 

 in the father's mind, while several complex resultants of suc- 

 cessively combined cognitic and cogitic stimuli all become 

 summated into the final resultant response of causing him 

 to risk his own life for that of the child. 



To put the whole in progressive tabulated form, we would 

 arrange as under: 



1. Cognitic 



Acts 



leading 

 to 



2. Cogitic 



Acts 



sensory or 



perceptive 



individual 



acts 



mental 



or 

 cogitic 



individual 

 acts 



mental or 



cogitic 



social 



acts 



summated 



into a 

 resultant 



moral 

 act 



1. Several heliotactic stimuli (e. g., sev- 

 eral color stimuli, light and shadow or 

 light intensity stimuli, also color bodies 

 changing position and thus becoming helio- 

 motile stimuli) are compounded into a 

 resultant heliotactic child-perception re- 

 sponse. 



2. Several tonotactic stimuli (e. g. shrill 

 cries, so like child cries, also splash action 



■{ in water) are compounded into a resultant 

 tonotactic child-perception stimulus. 



3. Summation of past geotactic stimuli 

 suggest by cogitic sense that child will 

 sink in water. 



4. All above are compounded into a 

 child-sinking-in-water mental picture, that 

 represents a compound resultant or cogitic 

 transition from 1, 2 and 3 to 4 and sub- 



. sequent states. 



5. Child sinking in water is a mental 

 stimulus which combines with the chemo- 

 tactically derived one that: 



6. Water kills land animals through 

 over-immersion. Both 5 and 6 combine 

 with the cogitic stimulus that: 



7. A helpless child can be so killed; while 

 from perceptive and mental impressions 

 the stimulus is added that: 



8. This is a helpless child which will 

 be so killed. But all of the above com- 

 pound into a stimulus which suggest to 

 him individual and social relations. For: 



9. Water might similarly kill my child 

 or a child of my race. So paternal love 

 (itself built up of many cognitic and cogitic 

 stimuli) combine the above cogitic and 

 individual acts into a compound resultant 

 stimulus which suggests: 



10. Others would save my child or a child 

 of my race. So: 



11. I as man and father must save this 

 child. So: 



12. A compound resultant response is 

 made in a united biotic, cognitic, and cog- 

 itic response effort to save the child. 



