Behind every individual closes organization; before him opens liberty,--the Better, the Best. The first and worse races are dead. ...The second and imperfect races are dying out, or remain for the maturing of the higher. In the latest race, in man, every generosity, every new perception, the love and praise he extorts from his fellows, are certificates of advance out of fate into freedom.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
An expense of ends to means is fate;Morganization tyrannizing over character. The menagerie, or forms and powers of the spine, is ...a book of fate: the bill of the bird, the skull of the snake, determines tyrannically its limits.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
'Tis weak and vicious people who cast the blame on Fate. The right use of Fate is to bring up our conduct to the loftiness of natu...re.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The element running through entire nature, which we popularly call Fate, is known to us as limitation. Whatever limits us, we call... Fate.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And last of all, high over thought, in the world of morals, Fate appears as vindicator, levelling the high, lifting the low, requi...ring justice in man, and always striking soon or late when justice is not done. What is useful will last, what is hurtful will sink.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But every jet of chaos which threatens to exterminate us is convertible by intellect into wholesome force. Fate is unpenetrated ca...uses.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
One key, one solution to the mysteries of the human condition, one solution to the old knots of fate, freedom, and foreknowledge, ...exists, the propounding, namely, of the double consciousness. A man must ride alternately on the horses of his private and public nature, as the equestrians in the circus throw themselves nimbly from horse to horse, or plant one foot on the back of one, and the other foot on the back of the other.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The book of Nature is the book of Fate. She turns the gigantic pages,--leaf after leaf,--never returning one. One leaf she lays do...wn, a floor of granite; then a thousand ages, and a bed of slate; a thousand ages, and a measure of coal; a thousand ages, and a layer of marl and mud; vegetable forms appear; her first misshapen animals, zoophyte, trilobium, fish; then, saurians,--rude forms, in which she has only blocked her future statue, concealing under these unwieldy monsters the fine type of her coming king. The face of the planet cools and dries, the races meliorate, and man is born. But when a race has lived its term, it comes no more again.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »