An old Scotsman tells Neville his attitude of mind determines his life and gives him twenty or thirty books (London, 1925)

Visiting London in 1925, Neville met an old Scotsman who told him that his attitude of mind determined his life — that he need not be enslaved by life but could control his future by his present thinking. Neville describes being intrigued, and fascinated that in spite of his limited education and background he could transcend his environment. Seeing his interest, the Scotsman gave him some twenty or thirty books, which Neville read from cover to cover, 'hungry for the knowledge I found there'. Relation deliberately left open: hist_event 741 'The Scotsman's son Matthew rejects mysticism' implies the corpus already knows this man as Matthew's father, and 742, 6123, 8090 and 15153 all describe 1925 London occasions that may be this one. No merge is proposed — with four candidates, a wrong merge costs more than a duplicate.