The essential connection and the unalterable trend of development of things, determined by the contradictions within them. To understand necessity in nature, it must be examined in conjunction with chance. Necessity and chance are a pair of categories that reveals the stability and variability of the development of things. Chance is the non-essential connection and the instable phenomenon of the process of development of things. It can occur or not occur, and it can occur this way or that way. For example, it is necessary that you will reap melons, if you sow melons, and that you will reap beans, if you sow beans, because it is determined by the genes of melon and bean; but it is accidental and determined by the combined effects of soil, temperature, rain, and other conditions, when it comes to how many melons are produced by each melon vine and how many pods are produced by each bean seedling. . .
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