816 Causes and Course of Organic Evolution 



ists, sectarian leaders, religious propagandists set forth diverse 

 doctrines. 



We claim it that moral and religious impression and aspira- 

 tion are as exact fields of scientific inquiry as are the origin 

 of language, the beginnings of sexual organization in man 

 and the lower animals, or as the perception and explanation 

 of the movements amongst celestial bodies. They are equally 

 or even more claimant of human attention if mankind is to 

 continue along an upward evolutionary pathway. But a huge 

 impediment along this pathway is the coinpetitive system. Man 

 largely clings, the world over, to individualistic even to analytic 

 methods. He largely refuses to see that the teachings of 

 Zarathushtra, of Plato, of Christ, of Paul, of Savonarola, of 

 Wesley, of Owen, of Booth, of Bellamy, aye, not least of trades 

 unionists, and of many socialists, are truly synthetic and in- 

 spiring. 



And why are the latter fast reducing the mountain of com- 

 petition to a mole hill that will ere long disappear .^^ It is that 

 these all have definitely established a proenvironment for the 

 future that greatly transcends even the best estate to which 

 man has yet attained. Further, while Plato, Saint-Simon, and 

 Owen proenvironed almost wholly a high cogitic estate of 

 social betterment, Christ, Paul, Booth, and Drimimond have 

 linked with the cogitic that highest energy of man's being, 

 the spiriticy which stimulates him to yearn after, to aspire to, 

 to live amid an earthly atmosphere that is charged with and 

 in touch with, the unseen but ruling Power, ultimate energy, 

 or Godhead of the universe. 



For millennia before the students of Cogitic Science dis- 

 covered and proved that the universe is a boundless arena 

 for the display of one great omnipresent energy or Power 

 that may at one time be termed heat, at another light, or 

 again electricity, the investigators of spiritic human science, 

 sweeping the intellect, the world, and the universe for a reason 

 and explanation as to its being and relation, reached the con- 

 clusion that a great Power exists, which by cogitic and spiritic 

 as founded on cognitic and biotic activities is ever advancing, 



