FATAIJ SM OR FREEDOM 



free to start from Chicago at 12 o'clock 

 and run to New York over a clear track 

 on a definite schedule. But it is not free 

 to run to New York on the same track 

 occupied by other traffic. Because the loco- 

 motive, when its run is over, is not free 

 to go out and get drunk, why deny it the 

 limited freedom that it has? 



This natural freedom, as applied to in- 

 organic and simpler vital activities, means 

 that a thing or process with specific organi- 

 zation is able to exhibit the behavior 

 characteristic of or typical for that organi- 

 zation in an appropriate environment. 

 There must be no external or internal bar 

 or impediment to the orderly progress of 

 the particular behavior in question. Such 

 freedom must be defined in each case with 

 reference to the specific factor of the total 

 situation whose typical manifestation is 

 under consideration. It may be impaired 

 or abolished by defective (atypical) in- 

 ternal organization or by inappropriate 

 (atypical) environing conditions. If a 

 thing is free from a monetary standpoint 

 a charge cannot be made for it. A caged 

 bird is not free to fly. A cripple is not 

 free to run. A bankrupt is not free to 

 endow a college. 



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