It is universally allowed that nothing exists without a cause of its existence, and that chance, when strictly examined, is a mere negative word, and means not any real power which has anywhere a being in nature.


In: Great Books of the Western World (Volume 35), An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding


It is universally allowed that nothing exists without a cause of its existence, and that chance, when strictly examined, is a mere negative word, and ...

It is universally allowed that nothing exists without a cause of its existence, and that chance, when strictly examined, is a mere negative word, and ...

It is universally allowed that nothing exists without a cause of its existence, and that chance, when strictly examined, is a mere negative word, and ...

It is universally allowed that nothing exists without a cause of its existence, and that chance, when strictly examined, is a mere negative word, and ...