DR. FRANK CRANE'S DAILY EDITORIAL

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 240, 30 December 1927, Page 5

DR. FRANK CRANE'S DAILY EDITORIAL

MEN WHO ARE REALtY GREAT (Copyright, 192~.) D R ’ BUTLER, of Columbia University, declared a while ago that there were no great men left in the world. ana cours ®» there are plenty of famous men. Many movie stars are famous and there are other front-page notables. nof 3 a nh nn llo4 eq ?i V l lent to greatness,” says Dr. Emil Ludwig. “Were this not so Chaplin would be much greater than Bergson ” nMi T”’ howev ?r. wbo , according to Mr. Ludwig are entitled to be called great and more so than Alexander, Caesar or Napoleon the °o t b his ti tnie haraCter ° f What did ' S ° Lindber S h ' certainly has Others adduced by Dr. Ludwig are George Bernard Shaw, among the hteran, and Masaryk, of Czecho-Slovakia, who "created a people ” ..... Tbose he maintains are great in practical science are probably litUe known m this country, and include the German, Nernst, the Swede Arrhenius, the Dane, Bohr, and the German, Plank. ’ Madame Curie, of Paris, belongs to the list of really great ones. He also maintains “Nansen, Shackle ton, Marconi and the Wright Brothers should be named.” , s elb ° f be ® ays: “Psychology possess a master who is a personalitv Sigmund Freud, the Austrian. Though I am averse from his teachings I recognise wherever I go the decisive influence of in his ingenious theories ” Einstein, the German, however, he ranks higher than Freud, and says that uTries 5 IVen sclence a shock such as it had scarcely received in three cenHe ranks Edison very high and says that just as all musicans of the Baroque Period were swallowed up by Johann Sebastian Bach, so Edison swallows up all his pupils. u su “ As a sample of really great men, he adduced most especially the greatest theorist and the greatest practical genius of our day, the German and the American, Einstein and Edison. anu tae