ABSTRACT
Biological logic governs the cycle of the organic life and the desires whose satisfaction is necessary to sustain it, affective logic regulates the feelings and instincts. The collective logic conditions morality and social life, mystic logic begets gods and creeds, and intellectual logic gives rise to the discoveries which transform human existence. In ordinary times the intellectual forces of a country's best elements easily predominate over its collective forces, but in great crises, such as wars, revolutions, and the like, this is not the case. The national mind, is not made in a day, but is the product of a lengthy past, for the history of civilized nations is the story of their efforts to acquire this permanent mind, which alone can extricate them from barbarism. Mysticism has its own laws, and its logical concatenations differ greatly from those of affective and national logic.
