MR. LLOYD GEORGE'S GOSPEL OF BAD LUCK,
[To TRY EDITOR OF TER "SPEC7ATOIt."1
SIB,—Shakespeare said the final word on the problem of luck. I commend it to Mr. Lloyd George:–.
"This is the excellent foppery of the -world, that, when we are sick in fortune—often the surfeit of our own behaviour—we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars ; as if we were villains by necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion ; knaves, thieves, and treachers, by spherical predominance ; drunkards, liars, and adulterers, by an enforced obedience of planetary influence; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on: an admirable evasion of man, to lay his goatish disposition to the charge of a star !"
There is no form of demoralization more subtle or more rapid
than that caused by the belief that we owe our evil things to bad luck, and that our neighbour owes his good things to good
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