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Date Posted: 14:44:28 11/04/07 Sun
Author: part 4
Subject: Re: November 4, 2007
In reply to: part 3 's message, "Re: November 4, 2007" on 14:38:17 11/04/07 Sun

To that end, we must rely in large degree on the authority
located in the products of the greatest, most fertilely ironical
composers in the domain of both plastic and non-plastic forms of
art, especially what is properly classed as Classical art.
Pedants, on the other hand, miss the necessity of those ironies
strewn in the wake of the creative faculty. When poets would
speak truth with irony, pedants' truth is lies.
{Therefore, on the subject of European culture:}
Attention to the known astronomies, including the evidence
embedded in calendars, as by Bal Gangadhar Tilak's {{Orion}},
affords us an excellent quality of hypothetical insights into the
general pre-history of modern physical science and closely
related topics, when that evidence is taken together with the
development of physical science under the Pythagoreans and
Plato's other circles. The subject of the principled features of
artistic cultures, as viewed from the standpoint of attempts at
an account of cultural evolution, is a more sophisticated
challenge. Here, on the latter issue, what is crucial, is what I
have emphasized, above, on the difference between a man's and a
dog's view of culture.
On the matter of the important issue of linking what we can
conclude, more readily, respecting the pattern of development of
physical science leading into a Riemannian physics of Vernadsky
and Einstein today, we should focus our investigation,
clinically, on the case of the cultural evolution discernable in
the evidence bearing upon the qualitative features of that
evolution of ideas in European societies and their relatives. On
that account, we are obliged to seek a common basis in
reflections on one of the greatest sources of the wonderful
ironies on which the rise of European civilization in its best
aspects is to be located: the evolution of the maritime cultures
from which crucially significant ``genetic-like,'' modern
European language-cultures are shown to be largely descended, as
I will emphasize the relevance of those links here.
The rudiments of such an endeavor should be seen as follows.

- Man or Beast? -
In any societies which are self-controlled by a practice
tantamount to policies of ``zero technological growth,'' there is
virtually no efficient recognition of crucially significant
``ecological'' difference, respecting the general characteristics
of social practices of cultures, between essential humanity and
human bestiality. Among frankly beastly views on the matter
of cultures, we should include those which we might recognize as
defective in this respect are: cultures with dominant
``pro-malthusian'' practical and ideological characteristics,
such as that proposed currently by former U.S. Vice-President Al
Gore. Intellectually and morally defective cases such as those,
have converged, and would presently continue to tend to converge,
as experience has shown repeatedly, on expressions of a value
akin to such products as the practices of slavery, cannibalism,
and Nazism.
That decadence of ``pro-malthusian'' cultures inheres in
their policy of practice itself. The physical reasons for such a
degeneration should have been obvious to any thinking person of
even modestly decent education. To get such ordinary issues out
of the way now, consider the following, essential, scientific
fact of the matter.
With the continuing development of the composition of our
planet Earth, there are ongoing changes in the composition of the
mass of the planet, the outer (``upper'') strata most notably,
such as that the continuing action of the abiotic, biotic, and
noetic processes, which transforms the planet's composition, that
of its outer strata most immediately.
Therefore, it is impossible that any society's intended, or
merely habituated zero-growth social process could be continued
without a resulting, quasi-``malthusian'' deterioration, even a
general collapse, of its potential relative
population-density. This would be more quickly evident for
the case of a relatively dense population, but would be
implicitly the case for any density of population. In the case of
an increase of the human population above the level of the
relatively few millions beyond the potentials in available
habitats of the higher apes, there would be the kind of evident
lowering of the potential relative population-density which
animal ecology presumes, a ``lid'' on the relative potential
population-density of that species, in principle, due to the
changes in the environment this habitation would produce.
{The crucial fact respecting the intrinsic potential and
consequent characteristics of human population, is that man is
not merely an animal, but is able to make the kinds of exemplary
kinds of principled changes in its own species' behavior which we
should associate with the effects of scientific and technological
progress. It is notable that improvements in performance of this
type correspond to, and supersede the upward evolution of
species, as from marsupials to mammals, in the animal
kingdom}.
The primary source of increase of the potential relative
population-density of a human culture (e.g., society, nation) is
the adoption and implementation of those forms of principled
changes in culture which generate a qualitative up-shift in the
relative potential population-density (and the potential standard
of living, including life-expectancy) in that society. This
critical approach to the matter now before us here, brings us to
the historically expressed actual distinction between man and
dog.
My use of ``relative potential population-density,'' since
my strict adoption of that formulation in 1953, reflects my
decision to define the specific potential of any immediately
considered population-level in terms of a specifically Riemannian
view of Leibniz's introduction of {dynamics}.
The specific difference between man and beast, is expressed
in respect to the relatively fixed relative potential
population-density of all lower forms of life. The human species
retains the potential quality which distinguishes it from beasts;
but, in the relevant cases, that quality has been often
suppressed by the characteristics of certain dominant cultures,
thus defining the current state of the society as degenerate
(e.g., scientifically, technologically stagnant). In all
cases in which an implicitly willful increase in the potential
relative population-density of society is not occurring, we have
a case in which the current characteristic of that society is,
like that of the U.S.A. and most of Europe today, in a critical
state of moral and species' degeneration.
The task, here and now, is to focus on that issue of
principle, not only for principles of physical science, but art.
Therefore, the subject now is {dynamics}.

- The Role of Dynamics -
The principle of {dynamics}, which was introduced formally
to modern European science by Gottfried Leibniz, during
1692-1695, was already, in principle, the method of his
modern predecessors, such as Cardinal Nicholas of Cusa (e.g.,
{{De Docta Ignorantia}}), of much of the work of Cusa's follower
Leonardo da Vinci, of the collected work of Cusa's follower
Johannes Kepler, and, implicitly, Fermat. However, dynamics was
also the method of the leading scientific accomplishments of
Classical Greece, implicitly including Thales and Heracleitus,
but most emphatically the Pythagoreans and the circles of Plato.
In ancient Classical Greece's science, what is appropriately
distinguished as the forerunner of the best of modern physical
science, was a branch of astrophysical motion, called
{Sphaerics}, rather than what the customary illiteracy of the
contemporary classroom would usually recognize only as geometry
as such. The characteristic of action under {Sphaerics} was
expressed by the term {dynamis,} which Leibniz translated into
modern usage as {dynamics}.
The work of Sanskrit-Vedic scholar Tilak, as in his
{{Orion}}, as examined for the manner in which he treats evidence
from modern Nineteenth-Century European astronomy, is to be read
in the light of Tilak's work on Vedic calendar material, that
from central Asia during an interval dating probably between
6,000 and 4,000 B.C. Then, on that condition, we are to recognize
a view of what is to be recognized, implicitly, as astrophysics
(rather than mere astronomy), which is in a certain significant
agreement with implications of the design of the Great Pyramid of
Egypt and the Egyptian science of {Sphaerics}.
Strictly speaking, all competent approaches to physical
science are premised on the same conceptions which the
Pythagoreans, Plato's other circles, and their Egyptian
predecessors, adopted as equivalent to the notions of
{Sphaerics}. In other words, as I have emphasized within
preceding sections of this present report, what is actually
worthy of being held up as competence in the development of
European science, is a product of a quality of ancient maritime
cultures, cultures dominated by the influence of astrogating
transoceanic navigators such as those from centuries within the
last phase of the most recent general long period of glaciation.
The notable characteristic of those transoceanic cultural roots
is of very long, astronomical cycles which are nested, in turn,
within long cycles of as long a span as, for example, 25,000
years, and still much greater. These are {not} simply perpetually
repeating cycles, but are reflections of a direction of the
astronomical scale of the anti-entropic evolution of the
astrophysical domain (in particular).
On this account, the differences between the recent vogue in
classroom doctrines, and the approach to physical science by the
Pythagoreans and Plato, reflect problematic features which
inhere, axiomatically, within what often passes for modern
science instruction. The infamous hoax of the Roman Claudius
Ptolemy, and the decadence of European science associated with
the influence of the Philosophical Liberalism of Paolo Sarpi and
his followers, are relevant illustrations of this fact.
Most notably, {Sphaerics} and its derivatives define
physical science as in accord with a universe typified by
{certain crucial contradictions within} the kind of notion of a
spherical universality inherent in the notion of the ``Platonic
Solids'' produced by Plato's associate Theaetetus. Euclidean
geometry and its by-product, the arbitrary, axiomatically
Euclidean notions of modern Liberal (Cartesian) mathematics, can
then be recognized immediately for the inherent incompetence of
both Euclidean and Cartesian geometries, and their modernist and
neo-modernist offshoots. We are obliged, on that account, to
rely, instead, on the outlook of the great followers of Cusa:
Kepler, Fermat, and Gottfried Leibniz. This confronts the
thoughtful reader here with two profoundly interesting hypotheses
which bear, directly and most forcefully, on the thesis-topic of
this present report.
First, we must regard post-Ice Age civilization, notably the
civilization of Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa, during
the recent six thousand or more years, as a relatively recent
outgrowth of a pre-existing civilization, which, for our purposes
here, we must date from developments during a period of emphasis
on the leading role of maritime cultures during the approximately
200,000-year term of the preceding great glaciation in most of
the northern latitudes. We must compare that span of glaciation,
with the presently oncoming new period of glaciation. We must
also take into account the fact that the lapsed time since the
closing phase of the last great period of glaciation, is about
one-tenth of the interval of time of the immediately preceding
glaciation itself.
That reflection has many kinds of more or less important
implications.

- History & Strategy Move Upstream -
Foremost, once again, is the fact that the rise of European
civilization within a period of cultural evolution over a span
since about 20,000 years ago, has been dominated by the cultures
derived from implicitly transoceanic maritime cultures. It was
the establishment of coastal settlements by maritime cultures,
which has dominated all credible surviving evidence of global
development of cultures and economy since that time. This is,
most emphatically, a time about 4,000-2,000 years ago when the
post-glacial melt had begun to settle into approximately stable
present sea-levels.
We must also point out the so-called ``riparian'' hoaxes,
which trace the development of civilization downstream, in
contrast to the reality that civilization proceeds upstream, as
from the mouths of riparian sites, up the principal rivers
adjoining those sites. The movement of cultures has been actually
upstream, from transoceanic maritime cultures, into coastal
settlements and upstream. The extraordinary importance of
Cyrenaica in ancient Egyptian, Greek, Ptolemaic, and later
Mediterranean culture, is an included type of feature of this
history. Indeed, the advantage of maritime over land-based powers
held during the entire sweep of European history prior to the
victory of President Abraham Lincoln over London's Confederacy
puppet, and the hysterical ``geopolitical'' reaction of the
British Empire to the eruption of transcontinental railways,
still to the present geopolitical date.
These cited strategic features of known and implied history
of the recent 20,000 and more years, put the emphasis on what I
have written in the treatment of sea-power earlier in this
present report.
However, in dealing with language, its uses, and its
evolution, while we must place the emphasis on what may be
usefully described as a land-based language's contrary sort of
geopolitical directions of development, on both the oceanic and
upstream progress, and the contrary, downstream-driven motion.
(e.g., the example of the land-driven Persian Empire versus the
sea-driven, Mediterranean-centered, cultural flows).
When we are intelligent enough to abandon that mechanistic
method of shaping of world-outlook, typical of land-based ancient
cultures, to adopt a dynamic outlook like that of the
Pythagoreans and their relevant predecessors, instead, the
internally driven impulses of cultures shift from a fixed
cultural outlook, to emphasis on exploration and development as
the driver of cultural impulses. The crucial role of both ancient
Classical Greek culture's emphasis on its character as a maritime
culture, and the relationship of the maritime culture, in Egypt,
centered in Cyrenaica, in effecting the fall of Tyre, and. thus,
the collapse of the Persian empire, should reenforce our
attention to the opposing vectors of an ancient maritime culture
and an ancient land-based culture of, for example, the rather
typical Asia type.
It is to be emphasized, that it was maritime culture which
shaped, and vectored the principal currents of the history of
Europe and the so-called ``Middle East.'' In the medieval period,
it was chiefly the rise of the imperialist financier power of
Venice, which shaped the history of Europe; the same Venetian
drive was key, in modern times, to establishing an imperial form
of Anglo-Dutch Liberal power in the Anglo-Dutch, maritime
provinces of northern Europe, and the consequent leading power of
the neo-Venetian empire of the heirs of Paolo Sarpi since most
periods of modern history since the February 1763 Peace of Paris.
It was the establishment of the U.S. republic as a
continental economy, with the introduction of development shaped
by transcontinental railway systems, which has been the chief
pivot of the challenge to the Anglo-Dutch Liberal imperialism,
since the U.S. victory, under President Abraham Lincoln, over
London's Confederacy puppets. This U.S. development, has been,
understandably, the British Empire's chief concern since the
failure of Lord Palmerston's geo-political enterprises against
the U.S. republic, through the time of the present threat of a
``third world war'' steered from former Prime Minister Tony
Blair's London presently.
Only a competent economist, such as one of my skills and
inclinations, could clearly understand these matters of global
grand strategy. Unfortunately, I have discovered no competent
rivals in this section of the economics department, so those who
wish to understand the present global strategic situation must,
like it or not, make do with the assistance available from me.
The same considerations so summarized just now, are crucial
for understanding culture as a subject of strategy, as I am
treating that aspect of ``geopolitical grand strategy'' here.

- The Principle of Cultural Evolution -
Therefore, competent grand strategy requires dumping the
customary ideologies of the present universities and kindred
locations, that for the purpose of adopting an approach to
strategy and economy which is premised upon the implications of
Gottfried Leibniz's re-introduction of emphasis on the ancient
principle of {dynamics}.
Notably, I must say, once more, that, in dynamics, no
{a|priori} definitions, axioms, or postulates are tolerated. The
modern term for {Sphaerics} would be Bernhard Riemann's physical
hyperspace, the method of anti-Euclidean, {physical geometry}
known to us as that which came to be adopted for competent
physical science in general by both V.I. Vernadsky and Albert
Einstein.
Against that background in respect to matters of
physical-scientific evidence, our introduction of the essential
principles of social cultural development, here, must place the
emphasis on Heracleitus' (and Plato's) notion that there is
nothing in the universe except change. Now, that much said,
think of a correlation between that Platonic concept of change
and the implications of a transoceanic culture's view of the
concept of ``up-river.'' In general, all notable major
developments in known cultures are never focussed on that
``equal-sign-like'' reading of the verb ``is,'' which is the
hallmark of a stagnant culture, a concept which seeks to send
cultures to the dogs; but, rather, the transitive verb of the
true pioneer, ``become,'' which defines the essential distinction
of man from beast. This has been the characteristic difference,
in trends, between a self-developing human culture, up-river, so
to speak, and a relatively stagnant, land-locked, or down-river
one.
Look more closely at the case of the U.S.A. The
founding and development of what became the U.S.A., was a
transoceanic maritime development, which was continued by the
leading settlers as an up-inland process, in which up-river
pioneering development was aimed at production of materials
transported by waterways, development of highways, and railroads
(chiefly). Even the mid-Eighteenth-Century development of
industry in England was directed largely by Benjamin
Franklin.
Earlier, prior to the crucial Seven Years War and the
February 1763 Peace of Paris which implicitly established the
British Empire as that of Lord Shelburne's British (Anglo-Dutch
Liberal) East India Company as a neo-Venetian style of
empire-in-fact, the leading impulse for progress in Europe had
been exemplified by the 1439 session of the great ecumenical
Council of Florence, in which the role of Cardinal Nicholas of
Cusa was crucial, in defining the principle of the modern
sovereign nation-state, and laying down the foundations of all
competent currents in modern physical science. The characteristic
of this insurgency of modern Europe against the tyrannies of the
feudal and Venetian heritages, was what became known as the
principle of progress. This notion of progress was an echo and
continuation of the great maritime tradition associated with the
notion of the Pythagorean-Platonic legacy of the Greek
civilization of Solon of Athens.
The conflict including, on the one side, the quality of
republicanism expressed by the 1439 session of the Council of
Florence, and the birth of modern science and of the modern
sovereign conception of a republican nation-state such as our
U.S.A., has been the expression of a continuing conflict between
the republican tradition of the development of what became our
unique design of a U.S. constitutional republic and the relics of
feudalism in a Europe besieged internally by the legacy of
Venetian financier usury and the dead hand of feudal aristocratic
traditions continued under such guises as parliamentary systems.
Over the period since the rise of Anglo-Dutch Liberal power
over the interval 1688-1815, the driving intent for progress in
civilization globally, has been expressed in sundry forms of
imitation of the principles of the U.S. Federal Constitution, as
Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, and Alexander Hamilton
typify our American legacy. This was more clearly manifest during
the 1865-1877 aftermath of the U.S. defeat, under President
Lincoln, of Lord Palmerston's use of his tools, the Confederacy
and also the New England-centered tradition of the British East
India Company, in the effort to divide and destroy the U.S.
republic. It was this defeat of British imperialism, under
Lincoln's leadership, which excited continental Eurasia's efforts
to bring the kinds of progress witnessed in the U.S. onto the
continent of Eurasia. It was the development of transcontinental
railway systems, that done in imitation of the U.S.
industrialization unleashed by President Lincoln, which prompted
the British Empire, under Lord Palmerston-trained Prince of Wales
Edward Albert, to organize what became World Wars I and II, the
so-called ``Cold War,'' and the Blair government's use of lies
and other fraud to draw a U.S. government, mentally sick in its
head, into the presently raging threat of the greatest global
catastrophe in all modern history.
That is to emphasize, that there is no inherent fault in
land-based, as opposed to maritime society. The fact of the
matter is, that, until recently, maritime cultures have expressed
a more hospitable inclination toward innovative daring in
development. However, this changed with the emergence of the
commitment of leading nations to transcontinental railway
systems, especially that impulse as unleashed by the effects of
the victory led by U.S. President Lincoln over the British
imperial effort, in concert with the governments of France and
Spain, to destroy the existence of the republics in the U.S.A.
and Mexico.
The world is currently gripped by the great, global
sucking-sound of the presently, hyperbolically accelerating,
greatest, global financial collapse in all known history of
mankind. Now, the principles of global development are clearly
posed as the intention on whose success the avoidance of an
already onrushing, planetary ``new dark age'' now depends, and
that rather immediately. Either the British empire, in its
present form, is eliminated, or civilization is eliminated
globally, that for a considerable period of time to come. There
are alternatives. There are immediately accessible remedies; but
the existence of some form of civilization for some time to come,
depends upon scrapping present habits in favor of urgently
required innovations of a type which the memory of the late U.S.
President Franklin Roosevelt suggests for now.
So far, here, I have posed the challenge before us. Now, I
must clarify the historical basis in principles, for the remedies
required. It should have been already obvious, in what I written
here thus far, The distinction between the two, thus contrasted
social outlooks, is as follows.

- The Human Equation -
From the standpoint of those developments in science and
technology available to us presently, we have passed over from a
perspective of conquering the space between, and within
continents, to the prospect of conquering the space among
planets, and beyond. Indeed, the presently perilous world
political-economic situation is such, that unless we make that
available shift in emphasis for statecraft, the world were
probably condemned to enjoy an already onrushing plunge into a
generations-long, new dark age.
The penalty would be, not the failure to develop
space-exploration sufficiently, as such. The penalty would be the
effect of the attitude thus expressed. Failure to maintain the
outward improvement of man's knowledge and mastery of nature,
would have a reverberating, destructive effect on the attitude of
policy-shaping as that expressed attitude of hostility to
outreach would affect the conditions of life back here, on Earth.
Failure to move ``upstream,'' has always been a factor of ruinous
decadence in relevant societies as far back as we can determine.
The only effective remedy for that threatened and already
onrushing state of our planetary affairs, is to examine more
carefully that principle of advantage which had been, for a very
long time, the advantage of maritime over land-locked modes of
culture. To this end, it is essential that we examine certain
peculiarities of historical-clinical importance in the way
certain conflicting uses of languages may be defined. This task
can be considered in terms of the crippling effects which
fixed-rule games, including the gaming habits of the
traditionally fanatical ``chess nut,'' and the effect of
including games such as computer ``point-and-shoot'' games, or
those others considered by von Neumann and Morgenstern's {{The
Theory of Games & Economic Behavior}}, tend to produce in the
``addict.''
Progressive cultures, such as cultures with a maritime
characteristic akin to {Sphaerics}, can be regarded as cultures
whose use of language is more or less constantly producing the
needed higher forms of grammatical structure which progress
always demands, higher forms in which the most significant net
emphasis is on conceptions associated with hypothesis employed in
the manner typified by the Pythagoreans and Platonics.
So, progressive cultures of the type usually traceable to a
maritime, upstream orientation, adapt themselves to the need to
impart the communication of newly discovered hypothetical states.
In the past history of the roots of European cultures, science
and poetry are the typical channel of expression of these
improvements in the powers of the individual human mind.
For example: there is a contrary direction, as typified by
the kinds of downgrading of the customary uses of the English
language under corrupting influences such as those associated
with the exemplary {{New York Times}} style-book, and, a
correlative of that, the mentally crippling restriction on the
use of the comma, This and related tendencies to ``popularize''
(or, if you prefer, ``vulgarize'') the use and form of language,
as degeneration is typified by the popularization of ``Mark
Twain,'' have usually appeared in the form of an attempt, as with
the pseudo-language called ``Esperanto,'' to make the users of
language and related practice of art, as relatively more and more
stupid (i.e., ``popular''), and the content of what passes
generally for literate communication bent more and more to the
trivial.
Take the clinically relevant experience of an organization
which I had participated in founding and leading, the Fusion
Energy Foundation (FEF).
During the interval of approximately a decade, between its
founding and the suppression (by aid of corrupt U.S. government
and other instrumentalities), FEF was a significant component of
the U.S.A.'s and international science community's activity.
During that interval, FEF was a joint effort of two generations,
my own and that of the Baby-Boomer age-group. By the close of the
1980s and the beginnings of the 1990s, the senior figures of
science and related endeavors began to disappear through normal
attrition of the aging process. A notable side-effect of this,
was the virtual vanishing of scientific rigor among the same
persons from the ``Baby-Boomer'' age-interval who had shown
intellectual promise and fruitfulness during the course of the
1970s and 1980s. This change was essentially a reflection of the
wave of intellectual decay which had overtaken most of that
relatively younger generation.
In a large degree, this trend is the effect of the corrosive
impact of the moral and intellectual decadence of the so-called
``Baby-Boomer'' generation--on both sides of the Atlantic. This
should be recognized as a disease which must be checked and
reversed, if we are to have a viable civilization again. However,
my emphasis on this matter here, is not merely to lament the
decadence of the presently reigning trans-Atlantic political
class. My mission here is to put the emphasis on something we had
lost, something we had lost, in part, because we had overlooked
the crucial implication of this change: something we must regain.
That brings this report back to the matters with which the
report began.

- Astrophysics & Culture -
As I have emphasized at several crucial points in this
account thus far, there is a special quality of relationship
expressed by the mind which uses astrogation as a means for
mastering the navigation of the seas. This is a connection which
is congruent, not accidentally, with the role of water and its
streams, lakes, and oceans, within the Biosphere as a whole. The
relationship of the waters of the oceans and seas to the flow of
life in the upstream lands of the Biosphere, is the principal
medium in which the struggle of mankind for self-development is
principally situated, in a fundamental way.
It is the challenge, as expressed in the discovery of
principled conceptions of the relations of the oceans and the
heavens above, which has always been the principal feature of the
most forward and most effective thrust of the work of the
creative powers of the human mind. This development coincides
with the emergence of new degrees of freedom which are
indispensable for mankind's increased power in nature. This
progress in the powers of the human species, occurs not only as
an expression of the opportunity for such discoveries; it is a
reflection of both increasing challenges which demand
development, but when society responds to that challenge, the
rate and extent of realization of potential progress is promoted,
especially in societies which embrace that challenge as their
destiny.
These challenges are expressed, chiefly, as, on the one
side, the challenges to society's members. On the other side, it
is expressed as the challenge of need for those altered relations
among the members of society on which the society's categorical
response to its challenge depends. Similarly, in the matter of
space exploration, the challenge itself is of greater immediate
importance to our species than the successes themselves.
When we consider the twofold challenge so outlined, the
development of the social forms of behavior within society which
reflect such challenges, represents a relatively greater amount
of the work of development of society than scientific progress as
such.
On this account, hypothesis as such plays a greater role
than successful discovery. The subjunctive and conditional, ideas
expressed in the language of hypothesis, are more important than
the indicative. Hence, the crucial importance of Classical
poetry, and its expression in the form of the methods of musical
composition traced from the impact of the work of Johann
Sebastian Bach. This aspect of the creative functions of the
individual mind within society, thus defines the essence of net
progress in the way in which languages are developed for us.
The response to the challenges confronting the relevant
capacities of the beasts to respond, are approximately fixed by
the degree of development of which that species of beast is
capable. With mankind, it is different. Our development, as I
have emphasized that here, has the effect of transforming us, as
if to become a higher species than we had been earlier. Thus,
since the beast has no ability to create a language in this way,
they could never develop a kind of use of language which is the
general, characteristic tendency of the human species
universally.
For reasons which I have indicated here, the process of
development of human cultures has been the richest in effects
where man lives among the oceans, reaching upstream. This process
of development into relatively higher states of mind, as
physical-scientific progress illustrates the point, finds its
deepest roots in the oceans of maritime culture, and in the
streams it must climb on that account.
The result of this process is changes in the composition of
the human mind, changes which would be the result of emergence of
a more advanced species in the animal kingdom. So, in place of
the relatively fixed potential population-densities of the animal
species, mankind is a self-evolving species, in which it is the
mental life, rather than changes in the biological composition of
the living individual person, which is the location within which
progress evolution of the power of the species occurs.
So, unlike the relatively fixed potential relative
population-density of the beasts, it is from the evolutionary
development of those specifically human mental powers, as in the
upstream progress of a maritime culture, that each generation
inherits the specific powers of its immediate predecessors.
We are creatures of the seas, striving upward toward the
stars. We are creatures of the fourth and highest domain, above
the abiotic, the merely living, and the merely individual. We
are, by anointed destiny, not beasts, but, as {{Genesis}} 1:26-31
specifies, creatures in the willful likeness of the Creator.

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