[lit-ideas] Re: The Final Finger of Fate

  • From: Eric Yost <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 11:15:18 -0400

>>Most of fate is very much in our hands.


As is our ability to argue about what fate is.


Heraclitus in the old fragment 121:

Character is fate.


Yet Bertie in _A Free Man’s Worship and Other Essays_:

The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.

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