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happens to have a fit of coughing and just at that
moment I on the other side of the globe happen
to take a piece of hoarhound candy, we need not
suppose that this coincidence was any part of
the Creator's plan.” A replies “I believe that Providence
over-rules every fact and relation however
trivial; and even if I were in your state of
scepticism, I should still hold it to be
inconceivable that any state of facts should
fail to conform to some law. You cannot shuffle
a pack of cards so that there is no mathematically
exact relation between the arrangement
before shuffling and the arrangement after
shuffling.”

So there you have the three commonest