“FATED TO BE FREE” 
are so important that they could not be left to the 
hazards of the forgetful and sleep-indulging mind. 
In health the body does not forget to breathe, or the 
heart to beat, or the stomach to digest. 
BAS | 
In all our human relations and enterprises we are 
no doubt under the influence of general, impersonal 
laws to a much larger extent than we ever suspect. 
Our destinies are shaped more or less by the geogra- 
phy of the country, by its geology, by its climate. 
A great river, a great lake, the coastline, a moun- 
tain-range — all set their stamp upon our lives. We 
are independent of our environment only within 
very narrow limits. The mountains beget one type 
of character, the plains another, the sea another. 
These influences work over and beyond our power 
of choice. Men in masses and tribes are subject to 
influences and courses of action that the individ- 
ual members composing them are exempt from. 
There is a rule of the multitude, and a rule of the in- 
dividual. Men collectively will be guilty of deeds and 
crimes that the separate units would not stoop to. 
In a crowd we escape the feeling of individual re- 
sponsibility. In mobs man reverts to more primitive 
and savage conditions; he becomes more like the 
irrational forces of nature. Is there any ground 
of hope that international morality will ever reach 
the standard of individual morality? — that the 
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