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We are therefore obliged to deliver up that operation to mere chance, or, more piously, (perhaps more rationally,) to the occasional interposition and irresistible hand of the Great Disposer.
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Edmund Burke
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Burke suggests that in political matters, outcomes may often be left to chance or divine intervention.
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