| Show GREATEST GREAT MEN the th e greatest theologian was st augustine whose body of theology tit present constitutes the major part of the doctrine of the roman catholic church the leading experimental philosopher was bacon who deemed that the substance of all philosophy lay in testing the accuracy of the knowledge already gained the most learned philosophical historian was buckle it is estimated that a single footnote foot note in his history of civilization must have cost five fire years of research virgil was the greatest pastoral poet who hoever ever lived standing next nest to homer as a writer ter of epim epics he nevertheless in some pass passages agea excelled his famous mas ter the greatest of all dramatists in any age or country was shakespeare he excelled in every line of drama tragedy comedy and history and in each was wa equally good the first and in most respects the greatest of all tragic poets was aeschylus his delineation of the tragic elements of human conduct has never been w |
