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fate is cast. The only remedy for a bad action is a good one.

The real test of a theory of human experience, therefore, is its relation to the world of action.  It makes all the difference in the world what we agree to call the power, life, or force which  experience makes known to us. If we deem it "physical," we are likely to become materialists.  If we denominate it "spiritual," the outlook upon life is vastly changed. If we cower helplessly  before it we become fatalists. If we vainly think we can do with it what we will--we learn the  lessons of bitter experience. To call it "love" is  to adore. To beat against it, instead of wisely  seeking to learn its laws, is to become a pessimist. One of the strangest conclusions at which man ever arrived is expressed in the condemnation of pain as "evil." Pain, as we shall more clearly see in the following chapter, is due to the ill-adjustment of some part of the bodily organism which nature is seeking to remedy. To meet pain with resistance is to increase it. Hence we see of what vast import it is to arrive at sound conclusions in regard to the powers that play upon us.

In the first place, it is a question of sound  psychology. Each man may perform the experiment for himself and learn to distinguish thought from action. To think one's self into the centre of mental life is to find the mind surrounded