FATALISM OR FREEDOM 



left groping as blindly In the dark as were 

 our paleolithic ancestors. They were like 



An infant crying in the night: 

 An infant crying for the light: 

 And with no language but a cry. 



With us the wail has become more vocal 

 and better articulated. We know better 

 what we want but there is no agreement, 

 even on the basic question, to whom shall 

 we address our invocations? 



Some are quite content with the tradi- 

 tional faith which directs them to lay the 

 burden upon an external and beneficent 

 deity. Others in increasing numbers in 

 our community hark back to a more primi- 

 tive culture and place the responsibihty 

 for human conduct wholly on chance or 

 on external, impersonal and mechanistic 

 fate. This is, perhaps, the prevailing sci- 

 entific attitude. Still others, more prac- 

 tically minded, go out aggressively for 

 what they want without asking lief to do 

 so from anybody. Experience seems to 

 justify this third procedure, for these "go- 

 getters" are the people who have the larg- 

 est accumulations of material goods. Cer- 

 tainly those who adopt the first attitude 



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