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  • Chance never writ a legible book; chance never built a fair house; chance never drew a neat picture; it never did any of these things, nor ever will; nor can it be without absurdity supposed able to do them; which yet are works very gross and rude, very easy and feasible, as it were, in comparison to the production of a flower or a tree.

    Isaac Barrow (1859). “The theological works: In 9 vols. Ed. ... by Alexander Napier”, p.185