omnipatient

Updated: January 8, 2026

Such perhaps was the aim of Nature, who does nothing without aim, in furnishing her favorite, Man, with this his so omnipotent or rather omnipatient Talent of being Gulled. "How beautifully it works, with a little mechanism; nay, almost makes mechanism for itself!

Thomas Carlyle - Sartor Resartus: the life and opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh