CHAPTER VI 



NATURAL FREEDOM IS REAL 

 FREEDOM 



The actual operation of natural free- 

 dom as exhibited in human conduct may 

 be illustrated by an example. 



The young child cannot swim. Unlike 

 the dolphin, ability to swim is not part of 

 his Inherited capital. He grows up, let us 

 say, on the river bank among other boys, 

 some of whom swim and some do not. 

 His own attitude toward the water is 

 shaped largely by environmental and so- 

 cial influences. The drowning of a play- 

 mate may fill his mind with dread of the 

 water. But the ridicule of the other boys 

 urges him toward it. There is an acute 

 Internal struggle the outcome of which 

 determines whether he learns to swim or 

 stays on the bank. And this in turn deter- 

 mines years hence whether In a boating 

 accident he acts the part of a hero and 

 saves his companion or himself miserably 

 perishes. 



The causal sequence is woven through 



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