...requisite circumstances: first, that it is consistent with plain matter of fact; secondly, that it is s, in a manner, the constant character of human nature,...inconstancy. The internal principles and motives may does not mean any real power which has anywhere a being in nature. But it is pretended that some causes...

...definition we may give of liberty, we should be careful to observe two requisite circumstances; first, that it be consistent with plain matter of fact; secondly,...mankind will be found of one opinion with regard to it. 25 It is universally allowed that nothing exists without a cause of its existence, and that chance,...

...writes1 that there is "no such thing as Chance in the world". He corrects the blunder when he says that " Chance, when strictly examined, is a mere negative word, and means not any real power which has anywhere a being in Nature"2 — a perception which he had apparently not arrived at when he wrote...