EVOLUTION THE MASTER-KEY 



if there were none other than emotional natures 

 such as his for the reason to direct? When a 

 man is a knave at heart it is well for his neighbors 

 if he be a fool to boot. What this age, like every 

 other, requires is not men of brilliant intellect, 

 but "men of good will," as the correct version of 

 the herald angel's message has it. Is it not plain 

 that here "good will" means good motives? It 

 seems to me that it would be well if society, recog- 

 nizing that reason is only the guide of the will to 

 its own ends, could easily discriminate between 

 those whose faces are set towards the light and 

 those who are in league with the Prince of the 

 Power of Darkness; and could insure that knowl- 

 edge, or the trained reason, should be bestowed 

 only upon those whom it would guide to a goal 

 worth gaining. But as society cannot do this, it 

 must rather and this is even better than the other 

 would be set itself to the training of the emotional 

 nature of what we call character as the prime 

 end of education and legislation. The importance 

 of character-making is that character and not in- 

 tellect determines conduct. 



e. Freedom and Determinism l 



The word free-will is used in at least three differ- 

 ent senses whereby confusion is worse confounded. 



1 The term determinism is quite immeasurably preferable to 

 the term necessity, which I have nowhere used. For a dis- 

 cussion of this point the reader should consult the short but 



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