Coincidences
He and John Anderson, the eighteenth-century pioneer of vocational education and Professor of Natural Philosophy at Glasgow, were both born in the town, and their fathers were both ministers of the parish church.
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“Only ambition is fired by the coincidences of success and easy accomplishment but nothing is quite as splendidly uplifting to the heart as the defeat of a human being who battles against the invincible superiority of fate. This is always the most grandiose of all tragedies, one sometimes created by a dramatist but created thousands of times by life.”
—Stefan Zweig (18811942)