"How comes it to pass, if they be only moved by chance and accident, that such regular mutations and generations should be begotten by a fortuitous concourse of atoms."
— Circumstances

January 1, 1970

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John Smith of Cambridge, Select Discourses, III, p. 48. (Ed. 1660). Same phrase found in Marcus, Minucius Felix his Octavius, preface (Pub. 1695)