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WILL AND INDIVIDUALITY.
nature and utilizing her in the fulfilment of his desires and realization of his end or Idea; but becomes a dead and passive subject to the indiscriminate operation of the forces that surround him. His destiny then no longer remains within and under his control; he becomes but a child of Nature, a creature of circumstances; and his environment becomes all-in-all and plays the role of Destiny rough-hewing and shaping him as it wills.
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