So runs the round of life from hour to hour.

So runs the round of life from hour to hour.

Man, without religion, is the creature of circumstances.

Man, without religion, is the creature of circumstances.

For these attacks do not contribute to make us frail but rather
show us to be what we are.

For these attacks do not contribute to make us frail but rather
show us to be what we are.

And circumstance, that unspiritual god,
And miscreator, makes and helps along
Our coming evils, with a critch-like read more

And circumstance, that unspiritual god,
And miscreator, makes and helps along
Our coming evils, with a critch-like rod,
Whose touch turns hope to dust--the dust we all have trod.

Accidental and fortuitous concourse of atoms.

Accidental and fortuitous concourse of atoms.

Odd instances of strange coincidence.

Odd instances of strange coincidence.

Thus neither the praise nor the blame is our own.

Thus neither the praise nor the blame is our own.

By some fortuitous concourse of atoms.
[Lat., Fortuito quodam concursu atomorum.]

By some fortuitous concourse of atoms.
[Lat., Fortuito quodam concursu atomorum.]

And I endeavour to subdue circumstances to myself, and not myself
to circumstances.
[Lat., Et mihi res, non read more

And I endeavour to subdue circumstances to myself, and not myself
to circumstances.
[Lat., Et mihi res, non me rebus, subjungere conor.]