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...could hardly have been asked. The air was bracing, without being too cold; there was not wind enough to interfere with the shooting, and the clear light gave uninterrupted view of the swiftly flying birds. As was to be expected, the scores showed the effect of the forced in action during the mid-years, and failed to reach the usual high average. The next meeting of the club, March 4, will probably bring out a large number of men. A match between scrub teams, shot at the close of the regular matches, resulted in a victory for the team captained...
...that intellect and will are the ultimate elements, the way lies open for an explanation. Let us suppose a will solicited by no motives, and therefore free as a stream is free when it flows unobstructed, yet whose essence, like the essence of the stream, is motion and action. Now this will, by its free activity might enslave itself to passion or ambition, somewhat as the stream, by the force of its own current, might heap up obstacles in its way; yet with this difference, that the stream gathers these obstacles from its bed, while the will finds its dangers...
...cour-age enough to run the risk; but the frozen stream cannot possibly flow. Besides, a stream is not free to flow except when it is actually flowing, but a man may be free to vote and yet never cast his ballot. Thus by liberty we mean sometimes action and sometimes only permission; in the first case, action becoming possible becomes at the same time necessary, so that freedom means that a given force works unimpeded; in the second case, action remains merely possible, and freedom means that a given obstacle does not exist...
...talk of freedom in still another sense when we say that we do something freely, gladly, or willingly. Here it is not a question of obstacles at all; our attention is not directed to the facility or possibility of the action, but to the pleasure we take in doing it. Not unlike this use is that by which we call what is voluntary or intentional free. Thus if a man has done something unawares, or under the influence of another, we say his action was not free; yet we do not necessarily imply that he was reluctant...
...does not prove that I went out, or am walking now, of my own free-will; on the contrary, my enjoyment, in so far as it has any bearing at all on my freedom, tends to discredit it; since it would be harder to assign a reason for my action, if I had gone out when to do so caused me trouble and annoyance. We might, in this case, look for such opposed motives as could have influenced me; but we should then be merely evading and postponing the real question. We may assume that men are swayed by motives...