FATALISM OR FREEDOM 



choice (as already defined) is first and 

 last a protoplasmic organization. This 

 organization has grown up by natural 

 process and everything that It does is a 

 natural event. To put it bluntly in the 

 current jargon of science, I am matter in 

 motion. True, it is a very complex and 

 peculiar organization of matter, and its 

 motions transcend our present powers of 

 analysis. Again it is true that we do not 

 yet know what matter Is, nor what energy 

 is, though practically we use and measure 

 them. But the simplest, and indeed the 

 only, way in which human life can be 

 treated scientifically is to Incorporate it in 

 its entirety Into the unitary causal se- 

 quence which In the aggregate comprises 

 our world of experience. The person who 

 experiences, who feels, thinks, chooses, 

 and wills, is part of this same world of 

 experience. At this moment he Is the sum 

 total of all the experiences that have come 

 down from time Immemorial to converge 

 In his personaHty. And the personality 

 will change and grow as long as its or- 

 ganization continues to experience. This 

 is the ego which chooses and wills and by 

 the exercise of these and other vital func- 

 tions plays its part In creative evolution. 

 Right living, as we have seen, is an 



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