The Simplest And Most Satisfactory View Is

No One Asks How To Motivate A Baby. A Baby Naturally Explores Everything It Can Get At, Unless Restraining Forces Have Already Been At Work. And This Tendency Doesn't Die Out, It's Wiped Out.

In The Traditional View, A Person Is Free. He Is Autonomous In The Sense That His Behavior Is Uncaused. He Can Therefore Be Held Responsible For What He Does And Justly Punished If He Offends. That View, Together With Its Associated Practices, Must Be Re-examined When A Scientific Analysis Reveals Unsuspected Controlling Relations Between Behavior And Environment.

Must We Wait For Selection To Solve The Problems Of Overpopulation, Exhaustion Of Resources, Pollution Of The Environment And A Nuclear Holocaust, Or Can We Take Explicit Steps To Make Our Future More Secure? In The Latter Case, Must We Not Transcend Selection?

I May Say That The Only Differences I Expect To See Revealed Between The Behavior Of The Rat And Man (aside From Enormous Differences Of Complexity) Lie In The Field Of Verbal Behavior.

Society Attacks Early, When The Individual Is Helpless.