Discussion
"The nature does not drive man along a particular road, but it offers a number of opportunities from among which man is free to select" is related to :
Answer: C
The statement expresses possibilism.
Possibilism, developed by Vidal de la Blache and named by Lucien Febvre, holds that the environment sets limits and offers a range of possibilities, and that human beings choose among them according to their culture, technology and values. Saying that nature does not drive man along one road but offers opportunities from which he is free to select is exactly this view.
Determinism, associated with Ratzel and Ellen Semple, makes the environment the controller of human activity, the opposite of free choice. Neo-determinism, Griffith Taylor's 'stop and go determinism', takes a middle path in which man may choose the pace but nature fixes the route, like traffic lights; since that keeps the road fixed by nature, both of those options are wrong too.
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