BOOK I PART III
lars, with a total indifference in others. Where
nothing limits the chances, every notion, that
the most extravagant fancy can form, is upon
a footing of equality; nor can there be any cir-
cumstance to give one the advantage above an-
other. Thus unless we allow, that there are
some causes to make the dice fall, and preserve
their form in their fall, and lie upon some one of
their sides, we can form no calculation concern-
ing the laws of hazard. But supposing these
causes to operate, and supposing likewise all
the rest to be indifferent and to be determined
by chance, it is easy to arrive at a notion of a
superior combination of chances. A dye that
has four sides marked with a certain number of
spots, and only two with another, affords us an
obvious and easy instance of this superiority.
The mind is here limited by the causes to such
a precise number and quality of the events; and