Retyping this thirteen years later, I find that the gender references are all masculine. Having learned to write before the gender biases of the English language were univer sally recognized, I find that the article contains such errors for which I must apologize. I did feel it proper to include it here exactly as it first appeared. When a person contemplates a vision of the future, the myths and values by which he lives in the present profoundly affect the result. The clarification of such assumptions is essential.
Man is capable of good and evil in like measure.
The choices he makes are a result of the context in which he learned to choose. The serendipitous character of human events results in, among other things, exceptional complexity and an apparent incapacity of people to deal with more than a small number of the variables affecting human affairs. It is probably the application of human intellect which makes the odds that a given event will occur in the direction intended slightly more than even, at best. Accepting these premises leads to the view that the context in which children learn to choose must be so arranged as to encourage beneficent rather than malign choices. Conditions of human trust and love appear to be most conducive to the establi shment of such circumstances.