818 Causes and Course of Organic Evolution 



ciple of energy and growth correlation, the streams of cognitic, 

 cogitic, and spiritic energy will be reduced in quality, as the 

 biotic flow becomes increased in strength, and as the glandular 

 cells, blood vessels, and involuntary muscles become steadily 

 multiplied to the point of hypertrophy. The main activity 

 of the cognitic energy will be directed toward increasing the 

 gustatory nerve terminations and the associated glands. Re- 

 flexly the sensual tendencies will be increased, for since sexual 

 re])roduction represents the highest and most intense response 

 of the bio-cognitic system, and is stimulated in intensity by 

 rich food and drink supplies, a strong — at times almost over- 

 mastering — sexual impulse will be started. This will become 

 the more powerful if the cogitic and spiritic energies and asso- 

 ciated nerve tracts be left comparatively uncultivated. A 

 distention of the stomach and alimentary tract, a slow labored 

 gait, a puffy dull aspect of the face, hea^'y eyes with drooping 

 eyelids, and a slow breathing gradually are acquired. The 

 concentration of the biotic and of the gustatory and sexual 

 cognitic flows of energy cut off normal supplies to the cogitic 

 and spiritic centers, which become irregular, uncorrelated, and 

 impulsive in action. 



After an often fairly prolonged period of such "animal- 

 istic" living, the human organism usually dies of apoplexy 

 or some related disease, in which the hypertrophied biotic 

 or carnal man overcomes and destroys by pure over blood 

 supply — over carnality — the mental or cogitic and any trace 

 that is still left of the spiritic. 



Examples of such careers are known to every one. That of 

 Henry VIII, though under fair auspices and often painted 

 under apologetic and highly unscientific colors, became to 

 an increasing degree with the years an exemplification of it. 

 Peter the Great, with heroic human upbuild, fulfilled it to 

 a large degree. For the butcheries seen in his youth, the 

 carnal profligacy that he unfortunately was initiated into by 

 Lefort, the jolly company that he organized, the despotic sway 

 he was permitted to wield, the often gross and unbridled sen- 

 suality he indulged, as pictured by Carlyle and others, all 



