Improvement Era, Vol. 11

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Excerpt from Improvement Era, Vol. 11: Organ of the Seventies and the Young Men's Mutual Improvement Associations, July, 1908There are people who call themselves fatalists. They profess a belief in destiny, and so resign themselves to whatever happens as the inexorable decree of, fate.They carry this belief to such an extreme as to declare that man is the mere puppet and tool of unseen in¿uences: that he is_ utterly unable to control or change the conditions Of his life, that he will live his allotted days in spite of neglect of health or of rash exposure to danger, that he will die when his time comes, what ever he may do to escape injury or to stay the ravages of disease.Like all other fads. And foibles of human fancy, this ex treme conception is unreasonable, unscriptural, and untrue. It has not even the element of novelty to excuse it, it is a survival or a revival of ideas current in the days of ancient mythology, when a deity, good or evil, was supposed to rule in every human act or undertaking. The oriental kismet typified the spirit of fate, from whose in¿uence there was no escape, than whom there was no greater power.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.