half-necessary

Updated: July 1, 2026

I should reply that it lay in the gracious peace of the whole troubled only with the sense of some lovely secret behind, of which itself was but the half-modelled representation, and therefore the reluctant outcome. 'Suppose I rejected the latter half of what you say, admitting the former, but judging it only the fortuitous result of the half-necessary, half-fortuitous concurrences of nature.

George MacDonald - Wilfrid Cumbermede