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9 Jhi: I Believe"
Editor Viows Golden Age Possible if Man
Realizes He Has Tools to Conquer Fear
A widely traveled New Yorker and Man of letters, Norman
Cousins reveals here his personal creed. This is one of a
series of statements prepare ! for broadcast by thinking,
u? .• peciple in ail walks of 1 1 •. The program is presented by
Edward IT Morrow over K1BII at 0:55 and 10:JO Monday thru
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By NORMAN COUSINS
Editor
The Saturday Review of
Literature"
Ever since I was old < aough
to read books on philosophy, I
have been intrigued by the dis
cussions on the nature of man.
The philosophers have been dc
bating far years about whether
man is primarily good or pri
marily evil, whether he is pri
maril\ altruistic or seliisii. co
op' i'ati\ ■ or competitive. gre
garious or self-centered, whetner
he enjoys free will, or whether
eve.rytn.ing is pre-determh .ed.
As far back, as the Socratio
dialogues in Plato, and even be
for that, man has been baffled
about himself. He knows he is
capable of great and noble deed-,
but then he is oppressed with the
evidence of great wrongdoing.
And so he wonders. 1 don't
presume to be able to resolve the
contradictions. In fact. I don't
think we have to. It seems to me
that the debate over good and
evil in man. over free will and
determinism, and over all the
other contradictions — that this
debate is a futile one. For man
is a creature of dualism. He is
both good and evil, bothaltru
istic and selfish. He enjoys free
will to the extent that he can
make decisions in life, but he
can’t change his chemistry or hi.;
relatives or his physical endow
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meats all of which wvr' deter
miivul fin- him at birth. And
rather than speculate over which
side of him is dominent, he
mi- lit do well to consider what
the contradictions and circum
stances are that tend to bring
out the good or evil, that enable
him to be nobler and a respons
ible member of the human race.
And so far as free will and deter
manismn are concerned, some
tiling 1 heard in India on a
recent visit to the sub - eor.inent
may be worth passing along.
Free will and determinism. I was
told, ore like a game of cards.
The hand that is deed! you rep
ri - det rminism The wa\
you play your hand represents
free w ill
Now where con s all this leave
us'. It seems to me that we ought
to attempt to bring about an -
safeguard those conditions that
tend to develop the best in man.
We know, for example, that the
existence of fear and man's in
ability to cope with fear bring
about the worst in him. We know
that what is true of man on a
small scale can be true of society
ci a large scale. And today the
conditions of fear in the world
are. I'm afraid, affecting men
everywhere. More 2.d(.'0 years
ago. the Greek world, which
had attained tremendous higlits
of creative intelligence ana ach
ievm'cnt, disintegratedunder the
pressure of fear. Today, too, d
I have read the signs correct1\
in traveling around the world,
there is great fear. There is tear
that the human race has ex
hausted its margin for error and
that we are sdd.ng into as.
other great conflict that will can
cel out thousands of years of
human progress. And people are
fearful because they don't want
tu lose tfu things bait ..re mors
important than peace itself —
moral, d nr. icratic. and spiritual
values.
The problem confronting us
today is far mor sc.r: us than
the destiny oi any political sys
tem or even of any nation. The
problem is the dcstmj oi man,
first whether vve can make this
planet safe for mar.: second,
whether we can make it fit ior
him. This I believe—that man to
day has ail the resource!; to
shatter his fears and go on to
the greatest golden age in his
tory, an age which will provide
the conditions for human grouth
and for the development of the
good that resides within man,
whether in his individual or his
collective being. And he has only
to mobilize his rational intelli
gence and his conscience to put
these resources to work.
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