WHERE BRAINS COME FROM.
It is a curious thing that many of our greatest thinker*, have come not from the metropolis, . hut from the provinces Shakcspere of Stratford, Gladstone of Liverpool, Tennyson of Lincolnshire, Darwin of Shrewsbury are notable cases in point. The scientists Owen, Hooker, and Tyiidall. the artists Leighton and Millais, the historians Carlylo, Froude, Freeman, and Leekv. the novelists Dickens unci (Jeorge Eliot, all hail from the provinces. It is true that London has produced such names as Browning. Huxley. Kuskin, and Swinburne, but statistics show, on the wnole, th.v'[ J '*•' from the small villages and country towns that, we ■ ,h " juniority of the. intellects which rule. the Empire and the people's thinking.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13214, 27 June 1906, Page 1 (Supplement)
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