AN IRISHMAN ON LUCK.
Dr Maurice Hime, headmaster of Londonderry School, defines luck as "an unioi*eseen occurrence that brings one some advantage, in the happening of which one has had, consciously to oneself, no hand, act, or part, with the reservation that there really is no such thing as 'luck,' which is nothing but a convenient expression to cloak our ignorance of the How and Why of various occurrences which change the current of our lives." Dr Hime's thesis is that there is no "luck" in the social and material advantages j to wnich a man may be born, but that to nearly every man, in his life-tiine and in his degree, i-eal luck hold 3 out a hand, and he- who has the sense and energy to &rasp it is the so-called lucky man. He quotes a chapter of instances, borne truly remarkable, within his own recollection in each of which a stroke of luck has befallen a man urtd has proved the starting point of a successful career, but he insists that these successes were far more the result of readiness to seize an opportunity than of the occurrence of the opportunity itselt.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 2997, 21 September 1908, Page 4
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195AN IRISHMAN ON LUCK. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 2997, 21 September 1908, Page 4
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