Philosophy of the Unconscious - Speculative Results According to the Inductive Method of Physical Science #267309

But suppose we even admitted the empirical freedom of the will, if we recognise a purposive evolution in history at all, this could only be the result of the freedom of indi viduals if the consciousness of the step next to be taken, in its full significance and in all its consequences, were pos sessed by every one freely co-operating in the historic movement, before be actively intervened.