REAL FREEDOM 



event, and we do not need to leave the 

 realm of natural causal sequences to rec- 

 ognize that it is also a moral event. 



The naturalist, with his present lim- 

 itations, may not be able to envisage the 

 whole of living and experiencing. There 

 is a great wealth of experience which can- 

 not be fully explored by any of the meth- 

 ods of natural science now available. Sci- 

 ence is content to see art, metaphysics and 

 religion go their own ways with their own 

 technical procedures, and the scientific man 

 refreshes and enriches his own life with 

 the priceless fruits of their labors. But 

 it is a satisfaction to him to believe that 

 these appreciations, aspirations and moral 

 sanctions are after all natural expressions 

 of his inner nature. I am living one life — 

 physiologically, mentally, morally — whose 

 component parts interact and reinforce one 

 another. There are no air-tight compart- 

 ments, in one of which I eat, in another I 

 think, and in another I worship. The 

 whole life as we mortals live it on this 

 planet, is a natural process, though the 

 methods of science are not as yet adequate 

 to unmask all that we experience in some 

 of its aspects. 



In the preceding pages the attempt has 

 been made to evaluate human freedom in 



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