But a Disposer whose power we are little able to resist, and whose wisdom it behoves us not at all to dispute, has ordained it in another manner, and (whatever my querulous weakness might suggest) a far better.
Burke acknowledges a higher power's role in shaping events beyond human control, suggesting acceptance of fate.
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