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They know, too, that the grand elector, the great chooser of Ministries, might be, at a sharp crisis, either a good friend or a bad enemy. The strongest party would select some one who would be on their side when he had to take a side, who would incline to them when he did incline, who should be a constant auxiliary to them and a constant impediment to their adversaries.
How many of the elements contained in the object chosen, or so bound up with it that they must be accepted along with it, may fairly be said to fall within the intention of the chooser? There may easily be dispute touching the latitude with which the word intention may be used.
Without such individual initiative, without such an individual faculty of choosing between alternatives of action, man could never have been a moral agent; but moral liberty to choose and act aright or amiss implies also moral responsibility for such choice on the part of the chooser.
Hitherto, Brynhild, as Valkyrie or hero chooser, has obeyed Wotan implicitly, taking her work as the holiest and bravest in his kingdom; and now he tells her what he could not tell Fricka what indeed he could not tell to Brynhild, were she not, as she says, his own will the whole story of Alberic and of that inspiration about the raising up of a hero.
And were I the chooser, a dram of well-doing should be preferred before many times as much the forcible hindrance of evil-doing.
Neither would it be possible to say that to ensure the "survival of the fittest" any intelligent chooser was necessary, whereas when you say "Natural Selection" acts so as to choose those that are fittest it is misunderstood, and apparently always will be. Referring to your book, I find such expressions as "Man selects only for his own good; Nature only for that of the being which she tends."
In modern times and in cultivated countries we regard each person as responsible only for his own actions, and do not believe, or think of believing, that the misconduct of others can bring guilt on them. Guilt to us is an individual taint consequent on choice and cleaving to the chooser.
He answered: "Even so will I as much as I may; and thus wise must thou look upon it, that I love life, and fear not death." Then she spake, and again her words fell into rhyme: "In forty fights hast thou foughten, and been worsted but in four; And I looked on and was merry; and ever more and more Wert thou dear to the heart of the Wood-Sun, and the Chooser of the Slain.
She felt that the very honour of their sex hers and Helen's was on trial in her person. She might not be as lovely as her friend though she might be; that wasn't a matter for her to inquire into; but as woman as well-bred, highly educated, refined and gentle woman she, too, was chooser, and not seeker.
Onwards surged the war, strode the spears along, Blickered the broad shields; blew aloud the trumpets.... Wheeling round in gyres, yelled the fowls of war, Of the battle greedy; hoarsely barked the raven, Dew upon his feathers, o'er the fallen corpses Swart that chooser of the slain! Sang aloud the wolves At eve their horrid song, hoping for the carrion.
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