While this makes for stability in administration and keeps the ship of state on an even keel, yet it also leads to the fatalism of our democracy, and often the "native hue" of its resolution is thus "sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought."

There was more than a trace of fatalism in the composition of her spirit.

Campanella frequently expressed his theological fatalism by this metaphor of a comedy.

They differ only in this, that with Predestination the given character and external determination of human action proceed from a rational Being, and with Fatalism from an irrational one.