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I
know of scarcely anything so apt to impress the imagination
as the wonderful form of cosmic order expressed by the “Law
of Frequency of Error.” The law would have been personified
by the Greeks and defied, if they had known of it. It reigns
with serenity and in complete self-effacement, amidst the
wildest confusion. The hugger the mob, and the greater the
apparent anarchy, the more perfect is its way. It is the supreme
law of Unreason. Whenever a large sample of chaotic elements
are taken in hand and marshaled in the order of their magnitude,
an unsuspected and most beautiful form of regularity proves
to have been latent all along.
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