[E. Pluribus Unum]

Somebody with the intellectual capacity of a toad would certainly think it could happen by accident.

[Verginius Rufus]

In Huckleberry Finn, Huck and Jim are floating down the Mississippi on their raft and wondering about the stars--were they made or did they just happen? One of them, probably Huck, allows that they might have been laid by the moon.

19th-century American philosophers in the Mississippi Valley (before it was fly-over country).