ABSTRACT
Freedom consists in the enlargement of scope and efficiency of action. Every increment in cultural devices and proceedings gives man an additional scope to do something definite which he wants to do. Human wants refer primarily and permanently to the achievement of desirable results, by which we mean an act which directly or indirectly satisfies the biological needs of the human organism. This chapter introduces one or two more realities of cultural constraint which increase freedom, and determines the potentialities of abuse which reside in them. It explains the mechanisms which establish instrumental drives in culture. Man wants to be warm. He wants to satisfy his hunger. He wants to be protected against dangers. Such needs are based in the physiology of the human organism. From the beginnings of culture these needs are satisfied through activities by which material objects and devices are produced so as to satisfy the primary needs.
