Celine Noel and Wanda Gunther revised TEIHeader and created catalog record for the electronic edition. Page 1 No. 62. I. Some contend that god governs the world exclusively by general laws . It represents God as flinging the Universe from his creative hand, to work out its destiny unguarded and unchecked. It is, in fact, but a disguised form of the doctrine of fate .
Every event is the result of necessity.
Others advocate a complex theory. National calamities God orders and controls, great men for important crises he raises up and guides. But there is no eye ever watching over the multitude, no hand providing for their wants, administering to their happiness and soothing their sorrows. It needs but little reflection to perceive the absurdity of this theory. Great events are but the aggregate result of innumerable trivial causes.