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Show TEN GREATEST MEN. j . i The tilt Ioelnttea None But Ensrllitn-iui Ensrllitn-iui and AmerleD of tbe ' Mlnetecntb Centnrr. "Who are. tbe tn greatest men of the nineteenth century? This is a favorite conundrum just -now acrcba the water, but we have seen or.ly one attempt to solve it in print. An English Eng-lish periodical names Abraham Lincoln, Lin-coln, the statesman: Grant,, th soldier; sol-dier; Darwin, the scientiet;., Thackeray, Thack-eray, tlie novelist; Herbert Spencer, the philosopher; Jenner, '!tu2 most commanding figure in medicine:" Froebcl, the educator; Ceetaove.i, the musician; r.nd Morse and Stephe:-.vn, first masters of electricity and steam. It is easy to imagine, says otitis Companion, the. frantic objections a French man fer instance would raise to a list which mentions not one f the masters of art and life of bis own nation. Noting that the list is restricted to Englishmen and Americans, Amer-icans, men of the - Anglo-Saxca race, and to Germans first cousins, so to speak, to that race he would allege that here was another outcropping of thrf seif-satisfisd . egotism which makes the Tritisher" or the ""lan-, ""lan-, kee" so disagreeable a neighlfrr. . .. I The real truth is that a man, wheth-1 wheth-1 K-.irllshmaa or Frenchman,- who 1 undertakes anv such classification, en- : :inna rntcrnrise. He may : ot hope to satisfy anyone but himself. him-self. Probablv every thoughtful student stu-dent of our own time has -at least one hero whose name he would vote to substitute for some name given above. Yet this is a good list, one worthy ! of respectful consideration. It is not 1 ours We merely import the conun-' conun-' drum and the answer. But the American Amer-ican who constructs a' more glitter.ng , .roll of honor will have to read hard and think deeply. The sterner. critic will probablv concede that it would ; not be possible to mention '-ten greatest great-est men" of the. nineteenth century, omitting all the ten whose 'names are given above. , . , V. |