You know it well enough." This repeated expression of fatalism was genuine enough.

It manifested a habit of his thought.

One of the characteristics of our time is that it produces men who are determinists by instinct; who, anything but profound students or subtle reasoners, catch at the floating phrases of philosophy and recognize them as the index of their being, adopt them thenceforth as clarifiers of their vague self-consciousness.

In certain moods Elgar could not change from one seat to another without its being brought to his mind that he had moved by necessity.
"What if that be true ?" said Mallard, with unexpected coldness.

"In practice we live as though our will were free.