NATURAL FREEDOM 



There is a popular impression that this 

 freedom is opposed to control, but this is 

 obviously fallacious, for the orderly proc- 

 ess of cause-and-effect sequence is the 

 indispensable condition for the manifesta- 

 tion of any free activities whatever. 

 Otherwise we have chaos, not freedom. 

 Disorder, or the disruption of normal pat- 

 terns of performance, abolishes freedom. 

 Freedom must appear within the lawful 

 system, not opposed to it; but in a situa- 

 tion, where a particular type of freedom 

 is designated, the activity characteristic 

 of that situation must not be inhibited if 

 freedom is preserved. 



The perfection of this freedom depends 

 upon the smoothness of the adjustment of 

 internal processes to environmental agen- 

 cies. Its value depends on the pattern of 

 the organization and the setting or total 

 situation within which it operates. An air- 

 plane may be said to have a wider range 

 of freedom than an automobile, and the 

 motor-car a wider range than the ox-cart. 

 The larger and better the internal appa- 

 ratus of control of behavior the more di- 

 versified is the behavior and the wider the 

 scope of the natural freedom. 



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