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rioted unchecked as a bio-cognitic * 'melange" below powerful 

 qualities of mind that moved impulsively and brutally, while 

 the spiritic sense became, as in Napoleon's case, degraded 

 into the notion of a star of destiny, that served to cloak from 

 his mind his many loathsome carnal and sensuous acts. 



But in every-day life even more perfect examples of the carnal 

 and lower sensuous development can be witnessed, for with 

 many men the absence of kingly or direct moral responsibility 

 the more surely permits them to fall back on the carnal. The 

 writer has watched the careers of several such for years to 

 their life close. The selfish apathy, indolence, and carnal greed 

 that in the latest stages overtake such form a truly sad pic- 

 ture, and in its eloquent silence demonstrate that man may 

 degrade himself to the level of the lowest brutes that perish. 



Not unfrequently however, though in some countries and 

 centers more than in others, careers are lived in which the 

 biotic and cognitic energies equally are permitted to hold 

 most powerful sway, while the cogitic may be largely made 

 subsidiary to both, and the spiritic nature may become prac- 

 tically atrophied. Outstanding examples can be seen in all 

 the centers of social gaiety and "dissipation"; at Nice, Monaco, 

 Ostend, and Brighton, in the old world; at Saratoga, Palm 

 Beach, and Newport in the new. But in every considerable 

 human aggregation they can not unfrequently be studied even 

 in churches. 



With less of the degraded carnality that characterizes the 

 first group, there is combined a keen appreciation of sights, 

 sounds, tastes, and other sensuous impressions that make life 

 "a round of pleasures." Sensuous impressions derived from 

 natural scenes of sky, sea, mountain, and valley are interposed 

 with reading of novels that picture these, or that depict grouj)- 

 ings of sensuous men and women, languid studies of music 

 and pictures, or exciting adventures where the sensuous and 

 lower cogitic wholly predominate over the higher cogitic and 

 the spiritic. The cogitic energy even, in certain cases, is util- 

 ized to stimulate sensuously the afferent and efferent nerves 

 by card-playing, betting, gambling, or by indoor and outdoor 



