Show 4 c DAILY y HEALTH SERVICE I Science Gives Give No Support I J for F Fatalistic View of f Si 9 By DR MORRIS FISH FISHBEIN BEIN Editor Journal of the American I Medical Association t on and of f Hygeia Hy- Hy geia geis the Health Helth Magazine Last Lt year car debates were h held 1 all aU allover allover over the United d States by le er several l eminent t d debaters baters on tho tim question queston as to whether or or not man is I R a machine The question queston IB tR answered with our modern knowledge of ot by Prot Professor C C. Judson HerrIck in his new book called The Man Man Man The Thinking Machine Of OC course a human man l being is not nota nota a a machine like n a a. a loom Jom loom or or a rotary press If I a belt or a a. a cog wheel whine bre breaks ks on eli any power apparatus th the machine is likely to stop until some somebody sonic bod body repairs tho the damage The rhe he liu hu human man being is i the tho most most complex ma machine na chine that be imagined It I h has s tremendous aut automatic to-ne to powers s sor of or regulation and repair lr The human machine i Ig hi a a. a part of or orthe the great system of or life Je There Thee is order and system tem in nature which may toe be called cled evolution or may be credited to lom some higher power Thero There is s 's no scientific support support sup sup- port for forthe the fatalistic conception of oC life nor for tor the beJ belief C that Everything Every very every thing that 1 Is or has bas been in life was predetermined Man Many things develop elop a as' as asa a a. result of or natural agencies Professor Profesor H Herrick Her Her- r- r rick wisely points out that a mechanistic me me- conception of first of ot all nl a a. a recognition o of the tue meaning of or mechanism The chief chie Junction function of ot any mechanism is to control the agents which are arC a part of ot its is business The Th human being has capacity for tor self regulation sel of 0 an any mechanism on earth It It- Itcan can even control the tho disappearance or th j. j appearance of its Is followers b by scientific sd- sd genetics At tho the same same time the human being must respond Inevitably lyt to to natural pr c n it Is its environment t This the human does Ii whereas low lower r species an and in objects objects ns changes changes' Influence them them arts acts Pot Professor ss r are n natural tural because y we b bodies and d th they are are h tb real rel determiners ers of oC c can com n character The They are pai pa J biologic machinery i Controlling life Seo Self control by an an activity of or the tho li lul SeI- SeI Self Self-c Self l 1 can can b cultivated by 0 training ju cular training in rl r can be cultivated Man ManIs Js but but tf distinctly nc ippa appa |