Knox to make
an investigation and suggest a course of action to avert a national
disaster. This Mr. Knox did in his thorough and painstaking way. A
little later, when Mr. Hughes was appointed to make a public
inquiry, the Knox report was laid before him, and according to the
author of it, he followed precisely the lines therein indicated
creating for himself a national reputation and laying the
foundation of a public career. Credit was not given Mr. Knox. It
has been suggested that the incident might have been an
illustration of two great minds seeking the same channel. Mr. Knox
does not think so.
In spite of his disappointments and failures, the dignified little
Senator from Pennsylvania who has been so many times on the verge
of greatness, seems to think that he could have done just a little
better than any of those who have achieved it, had circumstance
given him the opportunity. Perhaps he might. It is a compliment
that few men merit to be called merely indifferent.
ROBERT LANSING
He who believes in luck should study the career of Robert Lansing.
Mr. Lansing probably thinks that the goddess of chance played him a
scurvy trick, after having admitted him to the Olympian heights, to
break him as suddenly as she made him.
Robert Lansing's real misfortune was not knowing how to play his
luck. It is curious the fear men have of death.
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