The secret of the world is the tie between person and event ... the soul contains the event that shall befall it ... the event is the print of your form. Events grow on the same stem with persons. Each creature puts forth from itself its own condition and sphere, as the slug sweats out its slimy house on the pear leaf. A man will see his character emitted in the events that seem to meet, but which exude from and accompany him. ... There are no contingencies ... Law rules throughout existence ... Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding fine" ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson (The Conduct of life)
