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Thus you see what Fate is, when it is taken for an action. But as it is a substance, it seems to be the universal soul of the world, and admits of a threefold distribution; the first destiny being that which errs not; the second, that which is thought to err; and the third that which, being under the heaven, is conversant about the earth.
"I'm rather a judge of these things myself; and of all the other girls I ever saw " "Never mind about other girls," said Mrs. Blyth. "Tell me what you mean to give Madonna." "I mean to give her a Bracelet," said Zack. Valentine looked up quickly from the card table. "Well, Zack," rejoined Mrs. Blyth, "your idea of returning a present only errs on the side of generosity.
If the author dilates at all on his own feelings and impressions, they chuckle and sneer; and if he errs in the least or the compositor for him in his nautical details, they cry out that he is a know-nothing, a marine, a horse-jockey, a humbug.
Whittier writes thus on principle, as we begin to suspect, he errs in forgetting that thought so refined as his can be fitly matched only with an equal refinement of expression, and loses something of its charm when cheated of it. We hope he will, at least, never mount Pega'sus, or water him in Heli'con, and that he will leave Mu'seum to the more vulgar sphere and obtuser sensibilities of Barnum.
On whom then must a breach of the ancient institutions lie with the darkest stain if not on the highest in rank? In a few days it will be said the paraschites are men even as we are, and the old law to avoid them as unclean is folly. And will the reflections of the people, think you, end there, when it is so easy for them to say that he who errs in one point may as well fail in all?
Wilson errs, if at all, in the other direction. His birds, on the other hand, reflect his cautious, undemonstrative Scotch nature. Few of them are shown in violent action like Audubon's cuckoo; their poses for the most part are easy and characteristic.
The first is some words that I have read in the preface; the next that the language is Aragonese, for sometimes he writes without articles; and the third, which above all stamps him as ignorant, is that he goes wrong and departs from the truth in the most important part of the history, for here he says that my squire Sancho Panza's wife is called Mari Gutierrez, when she is called nothing of the sort, but Teresa Panza; and when a man errs on such an important point as this there is good reason to fear that he is in error on every other point in the history."
For neither he that having weak eyes should take a mule for an ass, nor he that should admire an insipid poem as excellent would be presently thought mad; but he that not only errs in his senses but is deceived also in his judgment, and that too more than ordinary and upon all occasions he, I must confess, would be thought to come very near to it.
But Fate hangs a shadow so vast on the heart that errs but in venturing and knows only in others the sources of sorrow and joy. Go alone, O Maltravers, unfriendly, remote thy present a waste, and thy past life a ruin, go forth to the future! Go, Ferrers, light cynic with the crowd take thy way, complacent, elated, no cloud upon conscience, for thou seest but sunshine on fortune.
The American's concept of himself, as we have seen, is sometimes anything but accurate; in this case he errs almost as greatly as when he venerates himself as the prince of freemen, with gyveless wrists and flashing eyes. As for the foreigner, what he falls into is the typically Freudian blunder of projecting his own worst weakness into another.
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