Only in our self-confident day of the popularization of knowledge⁠—thanks to that most powerful engine of ignorance, the diffusion of printed matter⁠—has the question of the freedom of will been put on a level on which the question itself cannot exist. In our time the majority of so-called advanced people⁠—that is, the crowd of ignoramuses⁠—have taken the work of the naturalists who deal with one side of the question for a solution of the whole problem.