Show fate there lias has always been a passionate protest in the heart of the ince ace i against that element clement in life which men call fate the play upon unprotected of those events accidents calamities which are beyond human control these arbitrary happenings are often tragic in their consequences they often seem wholly irrational they have at times a touch of brutal irony in many cases one is tempted to personify fate as a malig malignant mant spirit studiously and with malicious cunning seeking ing teays ays of wounding stinging bruising and poisoning the most sensitive souls aligre there have hye been human C cancers caT a cers rs so s 0 ca completely distorted and thwarted that it has seemed as it if the gods are jealous of men and anxious to rob the great inwards of their sweetness and the noblest achievements of their fruit |