806 Causes and Course of Organic Evolution 



Now, though the mainsprings of their actions have often 

 been put down by their fellowmen of less high aspiration to 

 rehgious delusion or mental unbalance, the heroic self-denying 

 lives of Zarathushtra, Socrates, Gautama, Christ, Paul, St. 

 Columba, Huss, Wycliffe, Zinzendorf, Heber, Livingston, and 

 Paton will live through all time as an incentive toward a "per- 

 fect life." 



If we attempt now to analyze their lives and the lives of 

 those whose memory the T\X)rld increasingly cherishes, in the 

 light of the above recognized complex constitution of man, it 

 may truly be said that each of them strove to live a balanced 

 life, in which the biotic or carnal, the cognitic or sensuous, the 

 cogitic or mento-moral and the spiritic or religious were blended 

 into a harmonious whole. True, in striving to live such lives 

 they were often constrained by customs, opinions, traditions 

 that were regrettable remnants of human misjudgment or 

 error. But, in spite of these, their lives have been such that 

 the world has honored them for the living. This honor has 

 been accorded, not alone or often chiefly for what they have 

 done, as for the record they have left of their high proenvironal 

 aspirations, alike for themselves and for mankind. 



Now it is most important to observe, in this relation, that 

 they all had a proenvironal pathway set clearly before them, 

 that was of high — often some have inclined to say of super- 

 human — character. And this pathway was undoubtedly the 

 compounded resultant of many and diverse carnal, sensuous, 

 mental-moral, and spiritual stimuli, passed in from without 

 or inwardly developed mentally, as a result of these stimuli 

 from outside. 



If now one contrast such highest lives of historical person- 

 ages with those of Confucius, of Solomon, of Seneca, of Wolsey, 

 of Bacon, and of Bismarck, while all may be called "great," 

 no one of them represented a truly balanced life. Confucius 

 elevated the mento-moral, atrophied the religious, and so far 

 as we know balanced the carnal and sensuous. Solomon ele- 

 vated to a degrading degree the sensuous and the carnal, along 

 with the mental and at times the religious, but the two former 



