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Nicolai Levashov. Russian History Viewed through Distorted Mirrors. Vol. 1

mastering of speech and subjective thinking at this stage of evolutional development
is a key for moving on to the second stage of the extra-uterine development—the
stage of the reasoning animal. If, for one or another reason, a human child does not
get the necessary volume of information, he will remain at the stage of the animal
forever. This is not a theoretical supposition. There are some well-known cases
when, for one or another reason, wild animals brought up human children. When
these “Mowglis” returned to human society being more than nine years old, they
could never acquire even the minimum skills inherent to man. Their conduct forever
remained the conduct of those animals with which they grew up, in spite of the fact
that they were absolutely healthy physically. And they were not able to learn to talk
and behave like man to the end of their lives. Thus, man is born only potentially rea-
soning and there is a temporal interval within which a child can realize this possibil-
ity or remain at the animal stage forever.

In the majority of cases by the age of nine, children who were brought up in the
family environment accumulate the critical volume of information necessary for the
neurons of the brain to be unfolded at the third material level and the development of
the third material (astral) bodies of neurons begins. Man enters into the second phase
of his development — the stage of reasoning animal. Let us clear up the situation
and determine some concepts. If instincts control the conduct of man, this man is a
reasoning animal, because, if man behaves exactly like any other animal — sub-
mits to the call and force of instincts, he is no different from them. If man is able to
control the instincts more or less and behaves according to reason, conscience and
heart, he is a man not only in his appearance, but also in fact.

In nature there are several types of living organisms which exist in the form of
permanent associations, the most well-known are bees, ants, termites and wasps.
For example, ants and termites build their cities with a shocking exactness which
people have not yet learnt to build their cities and dwellings. When they build their
termitary or ant-hill, they simultaneously make the inner tunnels of the ant-hill dove-
tail into one another with an amazing accuracy of a fraction of a millimeter, although
neither termites nor ants use measuring instruments like people. In addition, they
have a strict hierarchy: there is the queen or mother at the head and castes: warriors,
intelligence officers, guards, builders, educators, hunters, storekeepers, cleaners, etc.
Ants, for example, even farm herds of aphids and grow the simplest mushrooms in
the ant-hill or near it. Both ants and termites wage war with their neighbours for terri-
tory and food, attack and go on organised hunts for their natural enemies. These spe-
cies have their own language of intercourse, etc. Bees, for example, pass to each oth-
er the exact co-ordinates of flowerings plants full of nectar and a lot of other things
with the help of the language of motion.

It is possible to continue describing the activity of these communities which
cannot be called other than reasoning. But we do not call these living creatures rea-
soning, because if we take a termite, ant, bee or wasp, they will not show any signs
of reasoning conduct. They behave reasonably only within the limits of action of their

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