Thirded. Plus there's Orwell's classic rewriting—"Here it is in modern English": Objective considerations of contemporary phenomena compel the conclusion that

Thirded. Plus there's Orwell's classic rewriting—"Here it is in modern English": Objective considerations of contemporary phenomena compel the conclusion that success or failure in competitive activities exhibits no tendency to be commensurate with innate capacity, but that a considerable element of the unpredictable must invariably be taken into account.