Man's freedom, Dr. Crichton-Miller told the British Social Hygiene Council, is to be measured in terms of his detachment from fear of consequences. His fears may roughly be grouped 'under three headings—frustration, retribution, and extinction; and these headings correspond in a general way to the self, society, and the future' (page 21). And in order to make plain 'how these three groups of fears react upon the individual' and 'the numerous misrepresentations whereby fears are disguised and real freedom made more difficult of attainment' Dr. Crichton-Miller spake also a parable unto them. This is the parable: 'A story is told of a Jew who said to his friend: "Ikey, how much pocket-money do you give your boy?" "Threepence a week. How much do you?" "I give Jo a shilling a week". "A shilling a week! That seems a lot. Don't he spend it all on sweets?" "No, he puts it in the gasmeter; thinks it's a savings bank".

'If we take the sweets to represent instinctive gratification, then the