REAL FREEDOM 



orderly or lawful process. Chance Is said 

 to be a fickle goddess. The fact Is, she is 

 no divinity at all. She is an arrant faker 

 who must be thrown out of our pantheon 

 of nature. This has been made very clear 

 by Dr. F. H. Hanklns,^ who shows In a 

 well-reasoned paper that a world of pure 

 chance would be a world of utter chaos, 

 and further that only on the assumption 

 of a determinism which Is Itself a deter- 

 mining Is knowledge possible or any con- 

 trol of natural processes within our reach. 

 He also disposes of the popular fallacy 

 that radical determinism leads to fatalism. 

 If human destiny is controlled by arbitrary 

 caprice of the Fates (call them Chance, or 

 what you will), the process Is essentially 

 lawless; but such philosophies or theolo- 

 gies are the opposite of determinism, 

 which assumes the reign of law every- 

 where. And if it be recognized that hu- 

 man life and consciousness evolve within 

 this same lawful realm, that the human 

 mind (and of course the colligated bodily 

 processes) is knit into the same natural 

 causal sequence, that mind is not only a 

 result, but also a true cause of natural 

 events, that the foreknowledge of the con- 



^ Individual Freedom with some Sociological Im- 

 plications of Determinism. Jour. Philos., vol. xxii, 

 1925, p. 617. 



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