FATA LISM OR FREEDOM 



instincts, and certain potentialities for 

 further development whose exact patterns 

 will be determined by the environment in 

 which he lives, that is, by the educative 

 processes to which he Is subjected. On the 

 structural side, his Inner nature at any 

 stage of his life is his protoplasmic organi- 

 zation at that moment. His conduct is 

 determined by the reaction of that Inner 

 nature to the environmental conditions 

 then prevailing. 



Some of our personally acquired proc- 

 esses, moreover, have the remarkable and 

 mysterious property that we have an 

 awareness of what is going on (or part 

 of it) while they are acting. These are 

 set over against all of the others as the 

 components of our own conscious experi- 

 ence. And when this conscious experience 

 becomes sufficiently elaborated so that 

 from the totality of single experiences we 

 are able to build up general ideas or ab- 

 stractions and to express and fixate these 

 by the use of language and other symbols, 

 we have acquired the mental instruments 

 and technique necessary to evaluate ex- 

 perience In terms, not only of its past sig- 

 nificance (generahzation) but also in 



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