"Aristotle, my disciple... has in his Physicks explained this question with much precision and probability.—"If any thing... is done for a particular end or purpose, but if a certain concurrence of causes produces some other thing than was intended, it is called Chance.—For instance; if a labourer in digging a piece of ground, with a view to improve it, discovers a concealed treasure, this is said to happen by chance: but this discovery of the labourer does not spring from nothing; it arises from particular causes; the unforeseen and unexpected concourse of which brings about the event. For if the labourer had not trenched the ground, and the person who concealed the treasure had not buried it in that very spot, it had not been discovcred.""