Why do you think the rooftop of their apartment building is called tar beach? (Answers may vary.)

After all, the soft determinist says that we can have determinism and free will, too.

He could not flatly refuse them, although it was said to be no new device to shove men out of their places by contriving incomportable hardships to be put upon them, and after bespeaking the succession by officious undertaking to do all that was required to break the condition of advancement.

What crime was this, that lived incarnate in this sequestered mansion, and could neither be expelled nor subdued by the owner? -- what mystery, that broke out now in fire and now in blood, at the deadest hours of night?