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overtopped the two latter, and caused their abasement. Seneca, 

 keen, cunning, brilHant, and calculating, gave full rein to the 

 mental, and for reputation's sake to the moral side of life; he 

 dallied at times with highest religious doctrine, and by all of 

 these kept in check the sensuous and carnal elements of his 

 being. The often unscrupulous use of the two former, and 

 bridled guidance of the two latter, largely accounts for his 

 downfall before the carnal and sensuous Nero. 



Wolsey was a finished product of mento-moral cultivation, 

 gilded by touches of the higher sensuous from below and by 

 flashes of spiritic light from above. But the higher sensuous 

 and the selfish mental gained the ultimate upper hand. Bacon's 

 colossal and outstanding mentality scarcely rose to the moral 

 stage. The religious, largely through environment, was atro- 

 phied, while the carnal and the sensuous seem to have been 

 given rather free play. 



Bismarck cultivated the rough carnal and the mental sides 

 so that these largely concealed the sensuous, the mento-moral, 

 and the spiritic, which were of feeble growth in him. All of 

 the above then we would class as a second or medium type of 

 historical personage. 



But again, if we consider the career of a Nero, a Caligula, 

 a Jenghiz, a Judge Jefferies, a Peter the Great, or a Napoleon, 

 as outstanding historic personages, that are representative of 

 thousands of lesser but like characters, we find that in each 

 of these any trace of spiritic energy that they sliowed was 

 distorted, degraded, almost obliterated; the mento-moral or 

 cogitic in its higher moral phases was equally debased, while 

 the high and alert purely mental qualities were used almost 

 wholly for enabling the egotistic self to beat down or destroy 

 all efforts toward social union in others, except such as they 

 could control. The sensuous or cognitic impulses, instead of 

 being used in balanced fashion for ministering to continued 

 life and well-being, were largely abused; while the carnal or 

 biotic energies were not unfrcquently expended in gluttonous 

 eating and drinking. 



Let us now take the above three groui)s to represent a best, 

 a medium, and a worst type of historical personages. Wherein, 



