You will have observed that, according to my system, this goes for very little, and that the accumulation of fortunate accidents, Irrespectively of the use that may be made of them, is by far the most important means of modification.
"Luck or Cunning?"
Samuel Butler
If Mr. Darwin found the large classes of facts "satisfactorily" explained by the survival of the luckiest Irrespectively of the cunning which enabled them to turn their luck to account, he must have been easily satisfied.
"Luck or Cunning?"
Samuel Butler
There is a disposition among economists to speak of the quantity of a nation's savings, as if it was something given and complete that springs up independently of industrial conditions, and as Irrespectively of the purpose to which it is to be applied as the number of eggs a fowl lays or the amount of fruit a tree bears.
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae