text:  To take Mr Townshend's own mode of enunciating this-- "Are we entitled to conclude in any case that because we have not hitherto been able to assign a law to certain operations they are therefore absolutely without law? Are we to assert that the orderly dispositions of the universe are deformed by a monstrous exception; or is it not wiser to believe that our own knowledge is in fault whenever Nature appears inconsistent with herself? Surely we have enough order around us to suggest that all which to us seems chance is 'direction which we cannot see;' that all apparent anomalies are but like those discords which in the most masterly music prepare the transitions from one noble passage to another and are actually essential to the general harmony