THE ROMANCE OF CHANGE.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 2024, 27 June 1885, Page 4

THE ROMANCE OF CHANGE.

If his been remarked by various writeis rsDiiewhit Ringuhr that the cmiositii's of chance have nevet Mmge-.tcd t'lLin boI es to any wntei enticingly enoiu'h to giv\« the world a book undertint titli That such a book would piovc a lomviic of uitTcst no one who io.hls can du'ibt, for how many giot roiK-i-ins have bet n begun or ended, how- many momentous battles won and lust, how many gieat discover les made -»»>-l srerets lost, how many things, great and littl<\ done ai d undone, by chance happening in them , selves nothing? It lias been said that there never was anindn idiul bom who*!whole eaieci did not lun^c upon chance or accident Whethei 01 not an asM rtion so buud and swo-piui: be tiuc, it 13 a fact that the instoiy ot m n who have Stood in the tort most uuiks i.s lieh w ith instances of the effect of happy chance or accident. Thus Wallensti'in, the magnificent, the great captain who never lost a battle, was until the age of im uihood little bettei than an idiot, until a chance fall down a stone stau case injured his head, but cleared his clouded intellect. Mabillon •wns a more idiot until a similar happy chance fall n stored him to reason. The golden genius of Chai les Dickens might have remained unsuspected but tor chance. Dickens in eaily life was enamoured of the stage After many attempts he succeeded in Raining a pio" mise from the manager of the Com cut Garden Theatie toaccoid his histrionic powers a pi ivate hearing. A chance exposure to a rain storm brought on a cold which prevented Dickens from keeping his engagement, and thus the stage lost »n aspiring actor, while liteiature gained a king. Thoiwaldsen, the great IJamsh •culptor, after working four months unrecognised in Rome, detei mined, in despair, to return home and lay down the sculptoi 'a chicel for evei. A chance error by a caiele»B clerk in diawing hid pa«spott detained him twenty, fom houro. During that interval of waiting, Mr Hope walked into the studio, admit cd his Jason in clay, andaioused the desponding Dane's hope by oideiing a copy in inaiblc Thoiwaldnen unpacked his boxes, and never af tern aids in Ins long caieei lacked patronage. Kachel, the gieat tragedienne, was, when a child, a atrc« t singei, and as such might have passed into womanhood and old age, had not a party of critics dining together chanced to hear her loud clear voice beneath their window s. They observed the child's wonderful face and eyes, and in a kindly spirit, aioused no doubt by the wine they had drunk, proposed to her protectors to place her in the conservatory as a pupil. Sir Walter Raleigh would piobably ha\e lemained out of fi\ our with the eouit had Elizabeth, on her walk to the town, chanced to take a pith less muddy. E\« i iy reader of history knows the story, how the gallant Sir Walter spread his cloak beneath the royal feet, and was rewarded with his sovcieign's smile and speedy restoration to favour. Potemkin, the favouutc of Catheiine 11, and the foundei of the poweiful Russian family which bears Ins name, would doubtless have temaintd an oh acme soldiei had not a tiisial incident, a chance, in fact, changed his destiny. After Catheiinc had deposed her wtak husband and herself assumed the accptie, she was accustomed to paiade the streets of St. Peteisburg at the head of her troop". One day Potcnikiu noticed her aword bore no knot He boldly stepped forward, braung the knout for his insubordination, and offeied his. The C/arina accepted it, and stiuck by the handsome young lieutenant, asked his name and legiment, and if he would not like to serve her in the palace. Habl Pasha, the Sultan's chief of ai tiller} and most trusted adviser, was a tinner. Employed in the palace he offered to mend a valuable French clock, as no clock-maker was available, and did the work so well the Sultan made him lay aside the tinner's furnace and serve him. Sir Robe it WiNon, one of England's best gcneials, owed Ins elevation from a desk in a noluitor's olhec to a chance meeting with the Duke of York in the rain. Of Benjamin Disraeli there was a story cm rent yeais ago to prove the building of his greatness was .helped along by chance. In lih youth he was a reckless spend thrift. His ambition was to lead his party, but such was the state of his finances that at one time it wns douhful w hether he could longer suppoit the expense of a seat in Parliament. Accident or chance threw him in the way of a noted money-lender in London, who liked the brilliant young dandy on first sight, and did what he had nevei done before nor afterwards to any man— lent Disraeli £.">OOO on no other security than lii« genius and ambition. Disraeli never forgot the service, and never tired, so the stoiy goc«, of returning it various ways, which his influence afterwards enabled him to do. fieorge Xtcphcn^on, the inventor of the locomotive, was born with a the taste for mechanics. His patents were too wretchedly poor to give him the advan tagfs of education. At a \ eiy tender age he was comp< lied to work as a pit boy at twopence a day to help suppoit the family. Deep in the mines, shut out from everything that cheered tne senses, young Stcp'icnson found much to stitnu late his mechanical bent. He masteud the hoisting maclunfiy, and longed to be allowed chaige of it One day the engineer chanced to stumble and liipwe himstlf Young Stephenson promptly offered to supply his place, and j.ioved his skill so 'sell that the mine supcrinten dent gave him pei manent charge of the machinery, and thus gave him an oppor tunity to observe and think and build, until the Rocket appeared as result of his labouis. Stephenson was accustomed to call his application of steam a discoveiy. It is a notable fact that some of the greatest diseoveties have been made by chance. Millions of men probably had seen an ample fall from the tree before one chanced to drop to the earth under the eyes of Newton. H:s mind was curious enough to seek tho cause of the trival incident, and, acute enough having found that, to follow it up until the piineiplcof the attraction of gravitation was cleai to him. Of all the thonsamln who ererv day glanced at the swinging lamps suspended irom the Cathedial of Pisa, not one saw ■ny principle involved in their legnlai motion until (Jalilco, searching tor a means to regulate the movements of i flock, Hinncod to brlmld th< m, and in stantly hit upon the ideu of the uendu lum. Shrewd minds ever turn accidents to account. Tlnid Montgolh'er, the fathci of at ronuts, chanced to see a piece of papei placed on the top of a cotlee-pot swell aud use as the steam distended it, and conceived the idea of the balloon. Schanward, a Nuremberg glass euttpi , chanced to spill a drop of acquafoitis on his specticles. Attempting some time aftcrwaids to wipe it oil, he found it had corroded, and the idea of etching on glass occuried to him. The chance of lack of pen and ink to a la/y author caused him to jot down words on a lough stone, which, on tiymg to clean, he found tiansTciif d its impressions to paper. Thus was the incilctibbly valuable discovery of the lithogiapluc stone made. (Jlass, aeciidnii; to J'liny, was discovered by an accident A p irty of inn chants, tiav tiling with Unit, foi lack of stones to build a fiie on used lumps of flint. What was their astonisi.inent to behold, as tlic Jiic gicw intense and the flint was binned, a transpaicnt fluid inn ning over tho sands, Electricity, though vaguely known for centuries, wns not discovered to exist as a universal force until chance threw together a combination of elements which made the fact clour to an observing man. The application of steam to thp uses of man might have been delayed fifty yeais had not a rainy day chanced to shut a thonghful boy in his mother's kitchen, and the kettle, for lack of something else, suggested ltfHf as a plaything.

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