THE MOST FAMOUS MEN AND WOMEN.
An Araerioan paper called ' Once a Week* offered prizes to readers who should name the moat famous men and women living. Aooordiogly to the favor shown in the replies the editor gave his decision, and he am awarded the first prize to the oorrespon* dent who drew up the following list :— Statesman, W. E. Gladstone; general, Count Von Moltke; novelist, Robert L. Stevenson; poet, Lord Tennyson; painter, MeiMonter ; actor, Irving ; vocalist, Adelina Patti; lawyer, Sir Charles Russell; historian, E. A. Freeman ; scientist, Tyndall ; doctor, Pasteur; composer, Verdi; engineer, Ferdinand De Lesseps; inventor, Edison. The greatest living man of all — William E. Gladstone; "because he is the champion of the cause of humanity; his life work the elevation of ideas among men, among nations ; his physical nature being purified through inspiration to that degree which perfects his conceptions of man's duty to others, which gives him courage to reveal them, and intellectual and moral force to illustrate them. Pasteur is a biologist, physicist, and chemist, but not a physician. The gentleman who carried off the second prize brought in a few other men as ranking highest, and among others, Bismarck, Jules Verne, Edwin Booth, Herbert Spencer, and Dr Koch. Both the second and third prizetaken pronounced in favor of Mr Gladstone as the greatest living mac, Helmholtz, perhaps the most wonderful scientific man of the day, is not even mentioned.
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Tuapeka Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 1814, 22 July 1891, Page 6
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