FATALISM OR FREEDOM 



of nature, or else turn our backs on prac- 

 tical and scientific experience and appeal 

 to mysticism or the supernatural? Are 

 we drifting on the tides of time, driven by 

 hereditary impulses and predispositions, 

 buffeted hither and yon by cross eddies 

 of the stream of current events and by 

 the winds of chance? Or do we to any 

 extent control the direction of our courses 

 from within our own organizations, using 

 the energies of stream and wind to steer 

 to a haven of our own selection? And 

 by what natural right can we claim the 

 power so to determine our own careers? 

 Is that wondrous tree of knowledge, whose 

 fruits make us as gods knowing good and 

 evil, wholly mythical? 



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