How comes it to pass, if they be only moved by chance and
accident, that such regular mutations and read more

How comes it to pass, if they be only moved by chance and
accident, that such regular mutations and generations should be
begotten by a fortuitous concourse of atoms.

Man, without religion, is the creature of circumstances.

Man, without religion, is the creature of circumstances.

Thus neither the praise nor the blame is our own.

Thus neither the praise nor the blame is our own.

Men's plans should be regulated by the circumstances, not
circumstances by the plans.
[Lat., Consilia res magis dant read more

Men's plans should be regulated by the circumstances, not
circumstances by the plans.
[Lat., Consilia res magis dant hominibus quam homines rebus.]

And grasps the skirts of happy chance,
And breasts the blows of circumstance.

And grasps the skirts of happy chance,
And breasts the blows of circumstance.

The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.

The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.

So runs the round of life from hour to hour.

So runs the round of life from hour to hour.

And I endeavour to subdue circumstances to myself, and not myself
to circumstances.
[Lat., Et mihi res, non read more

And I endeavour to subdue circumstances to myself, and not myself
to circumstances.
[Lat., Et mihi res, non me rebus, subjungere conor.]

This fearful concatenation of circumstances.

This fearful concatenation of circumstances.