ABSTRACT
To describe adequately the techniques of freedom and liberty would be to map the whole domain of industrial and social technology. This, in effect, would be to write, from a special perspective, the entire history of mankind. Nothing so pretentious is the subject-matter of this chapter. We shall instead follow a single thread. Our point of view continues to be the fate of values in the welter of means that human life requires. Nothing is more obvious, nothing more pervasive than the clash of values, the conflict of aims within a man and among men. This does not mean that strife is the core of human living. It means rather that human living is essentially selective and that it involves from its very beginning a process of integration or harmonization without which its continued being would be difficult and its well-being certainly impossible. The conflict we observe so widely occurs within a growing context of agreement. Unresolved social problems, which threaten our whole existence in the wars they generate, represent needs of men for the satisfaction of which a solution must be found. A solution is wanted which will breed harmony instead of conflict, perpetuate peace instead of prompt to war, and supplant want with abundance.
