Did Leonard Peikoff misquote ‘Atlas Shrugged’?

We‧do‧not‧think‧that‧tragedy‧is‧our‧natural‧fatestate.‧and‧weWe‧do‧not‧live‧in‧chronic‧dread‧of‧disaster.‧We‧do‧not‧expect‧disaster‧until‧we‧have‧specific‧reason‧to‧expect‧it—,‧and‧when‧we‧encounter‧it,‧we‧are‧free‧to‧fight‧it.‧It‧is‧not‧happiness,‧but‧suffering,‧that‧we‧consider‧unnatural.‧It‧is‧not‧success,‧but‧calamity‧that‧we‧regard‧as‧the‧abnormal‧exception‧in‧human‧life.

Explanation

We‧do‧not‧think‧that‧tragedy‧is‧our‧natural‧

fate

state.

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and‧we

We

‧do‧not‧live‧in‧chronic‧dread‧of‧disaster.‧We‧do‧not‧expect‧disaster‧until‧we‧have‧specific‧reason‧to‧expect‧it

—

,‧

and‧when‧we‧encounter‧it,‧we‧are‧free‧to‧fight‧it.‧It‧is‧not‧happiness,‧but‧suffering

,

‧that‧we‧consider‧unnatural.‧It‧is‧not‧success

,

‧but‧calamity‧that‧we‧regard‧as‧the‧abnormal‧exception‧in‧human‧life.

Notes

Ayn Rand Lexicon’s (ARL) source link points to a 404 page. Presumably they meant this page instead, where Peikoff’s course on objectivism is sold for $178.99. This is a misquote assuming that the ARL quote of Peikoff is accurate and that Peikoff used the same edition of Atlas Shrugged as me. I’m not going to spend $178.99 to find out. ARL quotes Peikoff as saying, in a parenthetical, “I quote just part of this passage”, but that doens’t explain the alterations. It’s not like his quote suffers from any invalid omissions.