“Except Eteostiques,” say Drummond of Hawthornden, “I think the Anagram the most idle study in the world of learning. Their maker must be _homo miserrimæ patientiæ_, and when he is done, what is it but _magno conatu nugas magnas agere!_ you may of one and the same name make both good and evil. So did my Uncle find in Anna Regina, _Ingannare_, as well as of Anna Britannorum Regina, _Anna Regnantium Arbor_: as he who in Charles de Valois, found _Chassè la dure loy_, and after the massacre found _Chasseur desloyal_. Often they are most false, as Henri de Bourbon, _Bonheur de Biron_. Of all the anagrammatists and with least pain, he was the best who, out of his own name, being Jacques de la Chamber, found _La Chamber de Jacques_, and rested there: and next to him, here at home, a Gentleman whose mistress's name being Anna Grame, he found it an _Anagrame_ already.” CHAPTER CLXXX. THE DOCTOR'S IDEAS OF LUCK, CHANCE, ACCIDENT, FORTUNE AND MISFORTUNE.—THE DUCHESS OF NEWCASTLE'S DISTINCTION BETWEEN CHANCE AND FORTUNE WHEREIN NO-MEANING IS MISTAKEN FOR MEANING.—AGREEMENT IN OPINION BETWEEN THE PHILOSOPHER OF DONCASTER AND THE PHILOSOPHER OF NORWICH.—DISTINCTION BETWEEN UNFORTUNATELY UGLY, AND WICKEDLY UGLY.—DANGER OF PERSONAL CHARMS. _Ἔστι γὰρ ὡς ἀληθῶς ἐπίφθεγμα τὸ αὐτόματον, ἀνθρώπων ὡς ἔτυχε καὶ ἀλογίστως φρονούντων, καὶ τὸν μὲν λόγον αὐτῶν μὴ καταλαμβανόντων, διὰ δὲ τὴν ἀσθένειαν τῆς καταλήψεως, αλόγως οἰομένων διατετάχθαι ταῦτα, ὧν τὸν λόγον ἐιπεῖν ὀυκ ἔχουσιν._ CONSTANT. ORAT. AD SANCT. CÆT. C. VII. “Deformity is either natural, voluntary, or adventitious, being either caused by _God's unseen Providence_, (_by men nick-named, chance_,) or by men's cruelty.” FULLER'S HOLY STATE, B. iii. c. 15. It may readily be inferred from what has already been said of our Philosopher's way of thinking, that he was not likely to use the words luck, chance, accident, fortune or misfortune, with as little reflection as is ordinarily shown in applying them. The distinction which that fantastic—and yet most likeable person—Margaret Duchess of Newcastle, makes between Chance and Fortune was far from satisfying him. “Fortune,” says her Grace, (she might have been called her Beauty too) “is only various corporeal motions of several creatures—designed to one creature, or more creatures; either to _that_ creature, or _those_ creatures advantage, or disadvantage; if advantage, man names it Good Fortune; if disadvantage, man names it Ill Fortune. As for Chance, it is the visible effects of some hidden cause; and Fortune, a sufficient cause to produce such effects; for the conjunction of sufficient causes, doth produce such or such effects, which effects could not be produced—if any of those causes were wanting: so that Chances are but the effects of Fortune.” The Duchess had just thought enough about this to fancy that she had a meaning, and if she had thought a little more she might have discovered that she had none.