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Show ENJOYED WELL-WON HONORS Some Men of Genius Who Lived Many Years After Their Fame Had Been Assured. Sophocles, the famous Athenian dramatist, lived to be ninety. The author au-thor of "Ajax" Is the oldest writer, and he is unique in his degree of longevity. The next in point f age 13 Thomas Carljie, the author of "Snrtor Resartus" and "The French Revolution," Revolu-tion," and other works of noble conception, con-ception, undoubted brilliance, and lofty aspirations. He died at the age of eighty-six. Jeremy Benthnm, whose discipla was John Stuart Mill, and who is tha author of works on government, "The Principles of Morals and Politics," and other lucid expositions of the utilitarian utili-tarian system, underlived Oarlyle by, one year; while Voltaire, whose "Philosophical "Philo-sophical Letters" and "Discourses of Man" make his name to live, died at the age of eighty-four. |