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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 of age is Thomas Carlyle, Ibe author of "Sartor 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 Rentham, whose disciple was John Stuart Mill, and who is the author of works on government. "The Principles of Morals and Politics." and other lucid expositions of the utilitarian utili-tarian system, underiived Carlyle 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. |