. Not counting the cost : in three volumes . CHAPTER XI. eilas notion. It is doubtless true, as moralists tell us, thatwe are wrong to lay upon the impalpableshoulders of Destiny the responsibility of themisfortunes that attend our course. Suchmisfortunes, they assure us, are almost alwaysthe result of our own actions. To be sure,we might retort that our actions are dictatedby our natures and temperaments, and mightpoint out that the problem of how far wecontrol these, or are controlled by them inour turn, is of a kind to which no so far been attached. But this wouldonly involve us i
. Not counting the cost : in three volumes . CHAPTER XI. eilas notion. It is doubtless true, as moralists tell us, thatwe are wrong to lay upon the impalpableshoulders of Destiny the responsibility of themisfortunes that attend our course. Suchmisfortunes, they assure us, are almost alwaysthe result of our own actions. To be sure,we might retort that our actions are dictatedby our natures and temperaments, and mightpoint out that the problem of how far wecontrol these, or are controlled by them inour turn, is of a kind to which no so far been attached. But this wouldonly involve us in the toils of the everlastingdiscussion which, under its theological title ofFree Will versus Predestination, or its scientific[ 55 ] 56 NOT COUNTING THE COST title of Moral Responsibility versus Heredity,has divided humanity into two camps fromtime immemorial. Enough that there is per-haps something to be said in behalf of thosewho complain of the destiny that presided attheir creation or evolution in the same waythat there is a plea to b
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