HAS AMERICA ANY GREAT MEN?
That the Nobel Prize has been given to linglishmen, Frenchmen, Germans, Danes, Russians, Swedes, Norwegians, Spaniards, and Dutchmen, but not to an America, is greatly exercising people in the States. Has America, it is asked, no men worthy to rank with the foremost in the fields of science and literature — no leaders in the cause of peace? If there are, who are they? It is not believed thnt the United States lag behind all the leading countries of Europe in the production of -genius, but that the reason why no great Americans have been awarded the prize k because their claims have not been pushed vigorously. It would be unpatriotic to question the existence of American scientists, idealists, and workers for peace, whoso work deserves recognition. The sense of the people is to be taken upon the subject. Americans are to be asked by a Now York paper who they consider their greatest men, and the celebrities chosen are to be compared with those who have received tho Nobel Prize.— St. James's Budget.
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Evening Post, Volume LXIX, Issue 118, 20 May 1905, Page 14
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HAS AMERICA ANY GREAT MEN?
Evening Post, Volume LXIX, Issue 118, 20 May 1905, Page 14
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