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reduced in numbers, weakened, and at length die out. This 

 is in nearly every case due to their allowing the biotic or carnal 

 and cognitic or perceptive to overbalance and subdue the 

 higher cogitic and the spiritic. So indulgence in meats and 

 drinks on the biotic side, over-sensuous indulgence in sexual 

 stimuli, disinclination to face the responsibilities, the joys, 

 the labors, and the rewards of child bearing and child rearing, 

 conspire to reduce their numbers or to weed them out. 



No more melancholy and instructive a biological study can 

 be made than of the royal families of Europe through the 

 past half millennium, or of the nouveaux riches of America during 

 the past century. Nearly all conform to the same bio-socio- 

 logical laws and exhibit the same phenomena of biotic and 

 cognitic indulgence with cogitic and spiritic impoverishment, 

 leading to analytic decay and often extinction. 



Moreover the actions they have often been lauded for — 

 their battles, their intrigues, their high matrimonial or social 

 alliances — have in most cases been at bottom selfish and ana- 

 lytic acts of indulgence in which the good, the advance of 

 the mass, have been sacrificed for the preferment of one or 

 a few. 



So while the Empress Eugenie schemed for the succession 

 to the throne of a son who would doubtless have inherited 

 "the divine right of kings" she gambled in unscrupulous cold 

 blood with the welfare of a nation that has been distinguished 

 by energy, thrift, and brilliance, even though it has worshiped 

 over zealously at the altar of sensuous indulgence. Nature 

 has demanded the biological reckoning, alike from the em- 

 press and the nation, and in large measure the payment has 

 already been made.* 



Now just as some have called the lion or the tiger "the king 

 of beasts" and then have turned to shoot it as an analytic, 

 a destructive agent, so the earnest reasoning masses of man- 



* As the secrets of diplomacy have gradually been revealed during the past 

 decade, other and worse national gamlilers in human blood and life have stood 

 revealed. The reckoning is being summed up as these pages are being pro- 

 duced, and payment will surely follow. France learned wisdom, others will 

 also with the passing years. 



