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Definition
one who believes that all events are predetermined in advance and human beings are powerless to change them
- Those whose eyes twenty-five and more years before had seen "the glory of the coming of the Lord," saw in every present hindrance or help a dark fatalism bound to bring all things right in His own good time.Chapter 4 (56% in)
- This deep religious fatalism, painted so beautifully in "Uncle Tom," came soon to breed, as all fatalistic faiths will, the sensualist side by side with the martyr.Chapter 10 (59% in)
- This deep religious fatalism, painted so beautifully in "Uncle Tom," came soon to breed, as all fatalistic faiths will, the sensualist side by side with the martyr.Chapter 10 (59% in)
- Later days transfigured his fatalism, and amid the dust and dirt the toiler sang: "Dust, dust and ashes, fly over my grave, But the Lord shall bear my spirit home."Chapter 14 (70% in)
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