of destiny or fate.

heraclitus, who attributes all things to fate, makes necessity to be the same thing with it. plato admits of a necessity in the minds and the acts of men, but yet he introduceth a cause which flows from ourselves. the stoics, in this agreeing with plato, say that necessity is a cause invincible and violent; that fate is the ordered complication of causes, in which there is an intexture of those things which proceed from our own determination, so that certain things are to be attributed to fate, others not.