We are free in the degree* in which we act knowing what we are about. The identification of freedom with "freedom of will" locates contingency in the wrong place. Contingency of will would mean that uncertainty was uncer- tainly dealt with jit would be aresort to chance for adecision. The business of "will" is to be resolute; that is, to resolve, under the guidance of thought, the indeterminateness of un- certain situations. Choice wavers and is brought to ahead arbitrarily only when circumstances compel action and yet we have no intelligent clew as to how to act. The doctrine of "free-will" is adesperate attempt to es- cape from the consequences of the doctrine of fixed and im- mutable objective Being. With dissipation of that dogma, the need for such ameasure of desperation vanishes.