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 How comes it to pass, if they be only moved by chance and 
accident, that such regular mutations and read more 
 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. 
 What the discordant harmony of circumstances would and could 
effect.
 [Lat., Quid velit et possit rerum concordia discors.]  
 What the discordant harmony of circumstances would and could 
effect.
 [Lat., Quid velit et possit rerum concordia discors.] 
It is circumstances (difficulties) which show what men are.
It is circumstances (difficulties) which show what men are.
 The circumstances of others seem good to us, while ours seem good 
to others.
 [Lat., Aliena nobis, nostra read more 
 The circumstances of others seem good to us, while ours seem good 
to others.
 [Lat., Aliena nobis, nostra plus aliis placent.] 
Man, without religion, is the creature of circumstances.
Man, without religion, is the creature of circumstances.
This fearful concatenation of circumstances.
This fearful concatenation of circumstances.
 And grasps the skirts of happy chance,
 And breasts the blows of circumstance.  
 And grasps the skirts of happy chance,
 And breasts the blows of circumstance. 
Odd instances of strange coincidence.
Odd instances of strange coincidence.
Man is the creature of circumstances.
Man is the creature of circumstances.