1430 LIFE : OUTLINES OF GENERAL BIOLOGY 



elicit some Feeling from others. But to have senses, yet fail in right 

 use of them, is the way of mistake and accident, even to grievous 

 and terrible disaster. And the like from inexperience. But while to 

 lack feeling for others is only too easy in bad circumstances, when 

 also in bad company we too readily come to perversions of feeling, 

 with which worse evils than any before too readily open and advance. 



To lack Imagination is our common failing, essentially arising 

 from iU-nourished sense-experience, feeling and emotion; and it is 

 often emphasised by school "copy". To lack in Ideation has a 

 kindred explanation in the black art of mis-instruction established 

 as "cram"; while the lack of Co-Emotion is in the measure of our 

 starved individualism, so often standardised by the same ; yet often 

 too by its would-be arousal, from once emotioned sources, by the 

 teacher, but now repugnant to the scholar or student (as "jaw" — 

 or even "pi-jaw!"). The way of education so-called is still paved 

 with these errors of good intention, which depress and repress the 

 growth of mind; however enforced with honest desire of arousing 

 and enriching it; as per so much of our Education Codes, and 

 Examination Regulations. 



But even the most repressed imagination cannot but work a 

 little, so it readily goes wrong, into temptations, and these imaging 

 — unworthily — natural desires, which ideate into needs, and press 

 towards wrong action. And this the more if mis-emotioned, and this 

 worst of aU in bad company, since more easily soured to cynicism 

 and readily embittered to hate. 



All this might readily be followed further, to deepest evils and 

 their consequences in detail. This central outline, to the bio-sociology 

 of evils, can next be worked out around our initial life-graph. 

 Outside normal life's Acts and Facts, its Thoughts and Deeds, we 

 may place the negative evils to its left and right, and the positive 

 above and below; with their mutual compoundings to yet worse 

 evils in the spaces diagonally between. Thus the diagram shows 

 outside the simplest range, of mere mistake, weakness or temptation, 

 two other and parallel series of evils, "venial and mortal". These 

 three ranges in all are what were ruled and scourged by the three 

 Greek Furies. Stranger still, here also appear in vivid renewal the 

 circles of Dante's Inferno, seen, as he said, "in his City"; and much 

 as he worked them out on his models and graphs, as shown in a 

 well-known portrait. Indeed, beyond these, as we logically work on, 

 to consider treatment, our next resultant series of spacings corre- 

 spond to the circles of the Purgatorio; and beyond these again 

 come these of the Paradiso! These are all quite unsuspected and 

 unsought coincidences of mytho-poetic presentments with modern 

 ones; yet rational too, showing how the bio-social thought has 

 anticipated ours. Our ninefold graph of Life may also recall that 

 of the "Nine Stone Circles", over Europe and beyond. At any rate, 



