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The Review of Reviews. 



Alexnnder the Great 

 Julius Cpesar 



St. Taul 



St. Augustine 



St. Bernard 



Charles the (ireat 

 Alfred the (Jreat 

 St. Louis IX. 



Dante 



Shakespeare 

 Calderon 

 Moliere 

 Goethe 



Michael Angelo 



Ra])hael 



Mozart 



Columbus 



Gutenberg 



Franklin 



^\'att 



Stephenson 



Descartes 

 Francis Bacon 

 Kant 

 Conite 



Luther 



William the Silent 



Richelieu 



Cromwell 



Peter the (Jreat 



Washington 



Frederick II. 



Cavour 



Lincoln 



Galileo 



Newton 



Lavoisier 



Volta 



Faraday 



) Founders of the Eastern and 

 5 the Western Empires. 



Highest types of Christian 

 theology, Church, and 

 monarchism. 



I Highest types of Medifeval 

 ( warriors and monarchs. 



Highest types of Italian, 

 l",nglish, Spanish, French, 

 and ( lernian poetry. 



Founders of modern sculp- 

 ture, architecture, paint- 

 ing, and music. 



Pioneers of modern dis- 

 covery and industrial in- 

 ventions. 



Founders of modern schools 

 of philosophy. 



Founders of modern reorgan- 

 ised States: German, 

 Dutch, English, French, 

 American, Italian. 



Types of modern science : 

 astronomy, physics, chem- 

 istry, electricity. 



Frederic Harrison. 



As a supplement to Mr. Frederic Harrison's 



sununing up 1 ajipend various comnumications 



received since I went to ])ress with the last 

 number : — 



A SPANISH-AMERICAN VIEW. 



M. Triana, the Minister for Colombia, is the only 

 Spanish corres()ondent who answereil my inquiry. 

 He did not fill in his list, but he wrote me an interest- 

 ing and characteristic letter. 



M. 'I'riana'.s Letter. 

 " Now, I am going to be quite frank with you ; the 

 question in itself is ponderous and intricate, but, 

 viewed in the light of Mr. Carnegie's reply, it is 

 absolutely disconcerting to the point that I find 

 myself unable even to attempt to cope with the 

 problem. 



" Let us see. The world up to the Middle Ages, 

 when the real foundations of what is called modern 

 civilisation and real human progress were laid, is 

 considered as a blank. All the recorded greatness 

 of Greece, of . Rome, of Egypt, and the unrecorded 

 life of earlier ages is considered as a blank by Mr. 



fhotOirafh ty\ 



M. Triana. 



{Dover St. studios. 



Carnegie ; in a certain measure his list reads as if it 

 had been prei)ared for a club of ironmongers or steel 

 magnates, and the suggestion that acquired wealth 

 constitutes necessarily a title to greatness, implied in 

 the ' all born jioor,' increases the perplexity. 



" It seems to me that the really great men are those 

 who did fundamental work ; they are far superior to 

 and far greater than those who built upon the founda- 

 tions laid in advance of themselves. 



"Another (juestion is this ; What does Mr. Carnegie 

 consider greatness ? Is it merit ? Is it success ? Is it 

 achievement ? Is it the potentiality of endeavour ? 



"If greatness is to be judged by achievement, as 

 far as the individual is concerned, the greatest men 

 would be left out, as nearly all redeemers — not only 

 the one who came from Heaven — have been crucified 

 in their day. The men who do, the men who act, 

 the men who achieve things may be very great, and 

 certainly Lincoln, Gutenberg, Franklin, whom Mr. 

 Carnegie mentions in his list, deserve a place 

 amongst the great accomplishers of specific work ; but 

 the men who guided human thought and turned or 

 stemmed the great currents of the mirid into fruitful 

 fields of action are the real great men. 



" In the perplexity that I have tried to exjilain I 



