Guardian spirits?
There are many who so believe, to their utter undoing.

(Witness Macbeth).

An unconscious drift in the direction of right, virtue, duty?
These are banners of mortal manufacture.

Nothing is proved; all is permitted.
Not long after Cowperwood's accession to control on the West Side, for instance, a contest took place between his corporation and a citizen by the name of Redmond Purdy--real-estate investor, property-trader, and money-lender--which set Chicago by the ears.

The La Salle and Washington Street tunnels were now in active service, but because of the great north and south area of the West Side, necessitating the cabling of Van Buren Street and Blue Island Avenue, there was need of a third tunnel somewhere south of Washington Street, preferably at Van Buren Street, because the business heart was thus more directly reached.