Term

fatalism

The belief that everything is decided in advance and a person can change nothing, so one can only wait.

Death and Its Mystery: Before Death, Camille Flammarion

Explained in

• Death and Its Mystery: Before Death, Camille Flammarion
• The Human Machine, Arnold Bennett

  The belief that everything is decided in advance and a person can change nothing. Bennett calls it the last refuge of the lazy.

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