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[Parrotte P. <se...@bu...>]

N such as they may be able to get from the final and conclusive Kismet
of the oriental. It is fate. Man is the creature of his destiny. As for
our supposed claims on the heavenly powers: What right, he asks, hadst
thou even to be? Fatalism of this stamp is the natural and unavoidable
issue of a born positivity of spirit, uninformed by scientific
meditation. It exists in its coarsest and most childish kind in
adventurous freebooters of the type of Napoleon, and in a noble and not
egotistic kind in Oliver Cromwell's pious interpretation of the order of
events by the good will and providence of God. Two conspicuous qualities
of Carlylean doctrine flow from this fatalism, or poetised
utilitarianism, or illumined positivity. One of them is a tolerably
constant contempt for excessive nicety in moral distinctions, and an
aversion to the monotonous attitude of praise and blame. In a country
overrun and corroded to the heart, as Great Britain is, with cant and a
foul mechanical hypocrisy, this temper ought to have ha