self-arbitrating

Updated: May 22, 2025

The laissez faire School was certainly the more logical of the two. But both of them erred, surely, in ignoring that self-arbitrating power of man, by which he can, for good or for evil, rebel against and conquer circumstance. I am not, surely, overstepping my province as Professor of History, in alluding to this subject.

Charles Kingsley - The Roman and the Teuton : A Series of Lectures delivered before the University of Cambridge