He's some one's great-great-grandson, doubtless; who was great-great-grandson to some one else; who also had grandsires." "Many thanks then to your highness; for you establish the doctrine of Philosophical Necessity." "No.

I establish nothing; I but answer your questions." "All one, my lord: you are a Necessitarian; in other words, you hold that every thing takes place through absolute necessity." "Do you take me, then, for a fool, and a Fatalist?
Pardie! a bad creed for a monarch, the distributor of rewards and punishments." "Right there, my lord.

But, for all that, your highness is a Necessitarian, yet no Fatalist.

Confound not the distinct.

Fatalism presumes express and irrevocable edicts of heaven concerning particular events.