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error, presumption, or arbitrariness,
shaped it into. We are limited, too, by
the nature of the case, to the taking
of only of the objects of desire between which
we choose, and to the loss of the other
which we reject whatever it be. Both we can not have;
for then no choice were possible.
Our moral freedom is reduced,
then, finally, to this – the power to
choose either way, in the same circum-
-stances; or, the power to choose oth-
-erwise than we do in the same given
instance.

But, out of this, so fine
a possibility, grows all the greatness
of our being and all the grandeur