204. What are the three arguments mentioned in favor of the assumption that causeless action is possible?
205. What do we learn from a post-hypnotic suggestion with respect to the question of free will?
206. Give examples from history showing that both energy and indolence are independent of theories about the will.
207. Can the belief in causeless activity be expected to contribute to educational endeavor? Give reasons for your answer.
208. What is the aim of legal punishment? How is this aim related to the doctrine of causeless activity?
209. Why are children not made subject to legal punishment?
CHAPTER IV
HIGHEST ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
§ [23]. Evils of Knowledge
Into the remotest distances, spatial and temporal, mind penetrates through the accumulation and theoretical elaboration of experiences. Knowledge may be obtained of the names and the deeds of Assyrian kings, of the shape of the oceans and the continents thousands and hundreds of thousands of years ago, of eclipses of the sun and the moon, of the appearance of the starry sky for any number of years hence. Knowledge means power. Insight into the relations of things enables the mind to adapt itself more perfectly to them. Science and industrial development are the results of this advancement of mental activity.