Organization in Relation to Environment 805 



exhibitions that must be explained. The enormous and exact 

 knowledge gained also of what are practically infinite space- 

 conditions is due, we believe, to the same energized capacity. 



So spiritic energy, greatly more than the cogitic, has so 

 functioned as to energize the more aspiring and lofty souls 

 of humanity to widest outreachings, toward the most pro- 

 found questions of the world and the universe. Man's know- 

 ledge is still very limited; his attitude toward the phenomena 

 involved has been critical — even suspicious — rather than in- 

 quisitive and sympathetic. The future however may hold 

 great things in store. If each human being then is an exhibi- 

 tion of the above four constituent and increasingly condensed 

 exhibitions of energy in relation to material particles, what 

 should be the highest aim of each aspiring and proenvironing 

 individual? 



Moralists, religionists, and specially pre-Christian and Christ- 

 ian teachers like Plato, Paul, Francis of Assisi, Savonarola, 

 and Channing have tried to picture and define "the perfect 

 man." With no exact scientific chart to guide them, but 

 striving to interpret aright the deepest longings, the complex 

 entanglements, the frequent shortcomings from high ideals, 

 the noble aspirations toward a better state that each individual 

 shows, they have often proenvironed rules of guidance that 

 have influenced millions for good. Equally also the philan- 

 thropists, the missionaries, the social workers have lived worthy 

 lives, and have held up ideals of life, that have elevated and 

 blessed the people amongst whom they labored. But all have 

 felt after and longed for an exact and reasonable scientific basis 

 on which to ground their deepest and highest longings. The 

 comparative absence of this has caused some to forsake re- 

 ligious life, has caused others even to question like Schopen- 

 hauer the reality of any moral code, has led others to view the 

 biotic or carnal and the cognitic or sensuous as the entire end 

 and aim of human life, has caused others like Amiel — and 

 these a numerous class — to grope vaguely and longingly for 

 some unified system of life that might guide and encourage 

 them. 



