A fatalist of this kind almost every man is, less or more, in some mood or another; only, to save himself from being a puppet, moved by springs or drawn by strings, he generally contrives to except his will from the scheme of the iron-bound necessity.

But I am rather a fatalist about friendship, and I think that most of us get about as much as we deserve.

I dismiss the fatalist as a quibbler and play on.

[Footnote 1: This is the explanation of Job, who being a Mahometan, was a fatalist in his belief.