Among the wisest of the ancients, as well as among their apes, you will find a conflict of opinion.

Many hold fixedly the idea that our beginning and our end--that man himself--is nothing to the Gods at all.

The wicked are in prosperity and the good meet tribulation.

Others believe that Fate and the facts of this world work together.

But this connection they trace not to planetary influences but to a concatenation of natural causes.