The dice of God are always loaded....

     Thus is the universe alive.  All things are moral.  That soul, which within us is a sentiment, outside of us is a law.  We feel its inspiration;  out there in history we can see its fatal strength.  "It is in the world, and the world was made by it."  Justice is not postponed.  A perfect equity adjusts its balance in all parts of life.  {Hoi kyboi Dios aei eupiptousi}, - The dice of God are always loaded.  The world looks like a multiplication-table, or a mathematical equation, which, turn it how you will, balances itself.  Take what figure you will, its exact value, nor more nor less, still returns to you.  Every secret is told, every crime is punished, every virtue rewarded, every wrong redressed, in silence and certainty.  What we call retribution is the universal necessity by which the whole appears wherever a part appears.  If you see smoke, there must be fire.  If you see a hand or a limb, you know that the trunk to which it belongs is there behind.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson, as excerpted from his essay, Compensation