When I read this quote, I think that either - we have lost a great deal of literary education - or we have lost a lot of hogwash.

  "So vast improbability is practically an impossibility.
  Such evanescent shadows of probability cannot belong to
  actual life. They are unimaginably less than those least
  things which the law cares not for. ... The coincidence
  which has occurred here must have had its origin in an
  intention to produce it. It is utterly repugnant to sound
  reason to attribute this coincidence to any cause but
  design."