Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie - Jonathan Dunder  ## Metadata - Author: **Jonathan Dunder** - Full Title: Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie - Category: #articles - URL: https://readwise.io/reader/document_raw_content/48981721 ## Highlights - Fortunate in my ancestors I was supremely so in my birthplace. Where one is born is very important, for different surroundings and traditions appeal to and stimulate different latent tendencies in the child. Ruskin truly observes that every bright boy in Edinburgh is influenced by the sight of the Castle. So is the child of Dunfermline, by its noble Abbey, the Westminster of Scotland, founded early in the eleventh century (1070) by Malcolm Canmore and his Queen Margaret, Scotland's patron saint. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01j0gc0s21k57xkmqpw6nzcz59))