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224 THE DEGRADATION OF THE DEMOCRATIC DOGMA
degradationist might probably lose his temper and his
manners outright, to the point of breaking out:-
“The psychologists have already told you that Con-
sciousness is only a phase in the decline of vital energy; -
a stage of weakening will.

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"This is a sentence from a larger book. Ask a how or why question, as succint yet specific as possible, about the meaning of this sentence. Here is the sentence: ""THE DEGRADATION OF THE DEMOCRATIC DOGMA
degradationist might probably lose his temper and his
manners outright, to the point of breaking out:-
“The psychologists have already told you that Con-
sciousness is only a phase in the decline of vital energy; -
a stage of weakening will."	Why do psychologists believe that consciousness is only a phase in the decline of vital energy and a stage of weakening will?

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The psychologists believe that consciousness is only a phase in the decline of vital energy and a stage of weakening will because they see consciousness as a product of vital energy, which is strongest in the earliest forms of life and gradually weakens over time. Physicists also acknowledge the intensity of the will, but they see it as stronger in unconscious beings like the Scarab or Scorpion than in conscious beings like monkeys or humans. The degradationist argues that the highest intensities of nature, such as those that produced the atom and the molecule, were precisely the earliest on our scale, and that the vital energies in the order of time seem to have first developed themselves during a great many millions of years in water or underground, in conditions indefinitely varied and altogether unknown.