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There is no such thing as chance or accident the words merely signify our ignorance of some real and immediate cause.

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Adam Clarke
Died: 1832
Died: August 26
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It is strictly and philosophically true in Nature and reason that there is no such thing as chance or accident it being evident that these words do not signify anything really existing, anything that is truly an agent or the cause of any event but they signify merely men's ignorance of the real an immediate cause.
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