Who are the Twenty Greatest Men? 



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Balzac, 1799 — 1850. 

 Darwin, 1809 -1882. 

 Simpson, 181 1 — 1879. 

 Dickens, 181 2 — 1870. 

 Lister, 1827. 

 Tolstoy, 1828 191 o. 

 J. G. Frazer, 1854. 



An Anglican's Choice. 



An Anglican clergyman in Wales, seeing that no 

 clergyman of the Church of England has contributed 

 to the Symposium last month, sends in his list of 

 Twenty Greatest Men. Its chief peculiarity is that 

 he includes Sir. H. M. Stanley as one of the greatest 

 men that the world has ever produced. This probably 

 may be attributed to the fact that our correspondent 

 dates from Neath :— 



Moses, 15th century B.C. 



Rameses II., 1300 — 1230 B.C. 



Homer, loth or nth century B C. 



Plato, 427 B.C. 



Aristotle, 384—322 B.C. 



Julius Caesar, 100 — 44 B.C. 



St. Paul. 



Marcus .\urelius, 121 — 180. 



Constantine thtj (ireat, 272 — 337, 



Augustine, 354-430. 



Francis d'Assisi, 1182 — 1226. 



Dante, 1265— 132 1. 



Luther, 1483 -1546. 



Shakespeare, 1564 — 1616. 



Newton, 1640 — 1727. 



Darwin, 1809 — 1S82. 



Gladstone, 1809 — 1898. 



Ruskin, 1819 —1900. 



H. NL Stanley (John Ro^^lands), 1841 — 1904. 



Tolstoy, 182K— 1910. 



An Irish Catholic's List. 



.\ very curiou-. list reached me from an anonymous 

 Irish |x;asant. It is characteristically Irish, and not 

 less characteri.stic.illy Catholic. (July an Irishman 

 could have described the twelve Apostles as one of 

 the greatest nn-ii in history. Between this and Sir 

 Hiram's list the cunirast is great indeed :— 



1. (Jur Diviiu- Lord, true Man as true God. 



2. Our Blessed Lady. 



3. St. Joseph. 



4. The twelve .\i)Ostles. 



5. St. Mark. 

 • 6. .St. Luke. 



7. St. John the llaptist. 



8. Abraham. 



9. Moses. 



10. King Daviil. 



11. Klias. 



12. St. Benrdii t. 



13. St. .Aunii-.iiu'- of Hipf)f>. 



14. St. Patrick. 



1 ;. Si. Oretioi \ ilii- ( Jreat. 



16. 



17- 

 18. 

 19. 

 20. 



St. Thomas Aquinas. 

 St. Ignatius. 

 St. Vincent de Paul. 

 O'Connell. - 

 Pius X. 



FAMOUS SAYINGS OF GREAT MEN. 



Mr. A. H. Leuis, writing to the Ne7v York American, 

 sends a list of some of the famous sayings of some ot 

 the world's greatest men, holding that a great thought 

 is often as valuable as a great invention :— 



Washington : " Put none but .\mericans on guard." 



G.\LILEO : "It moves, nevertheless." 



Frederick the Great : " Every man must get to heaven 

 his own way." 



Lincoln : " You can fool part of the people all of the lime, 

 and all of the people part of the time, but you can't fool all of 

 the people all of the time." 



Franklin : " Love your neighbour as yourself, but don't 

 take down your fence." 



Cro.mwell : " A battleship is your best ambassador." 



Mahomet : "There is no god but God." 



Jefferson : " Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God." 



Confucius : " Honour lies not in never falling, but in rising 

 every time you fall." 



Luther : " To pray well is the better half of study." 



Magf.llan : " The church says the earth is flat, but I know 

 that it is round ; for I have seen the shadow on the moon, and 

 I have more faith in a shadow than in the church." 



Napoleon : " Imagination rules the world." 



Newton : "I cannot calculate the madness of a people." 



Peter the Great: "I would give half my kingdom to 

 know how to govern the other half." 



Cesar : " Better first in a village than second in Rome." 



GORDON'S HEROISM. 



"Charles Geokgk Ourdun, Hero," is the title of 

 a tribute by T. A. Lacey in the Treasury. He 

 says : — 



This perfect, gentle knight was, as all such must be, the 

 most humble and modest of men : humble, in spite of his 

 haughty confidence ; modest, in spite of his challenging 

 demeanour. He was overawed by no superior, he flinched 

 from no judgment, he stinted no indignant word, he slaved no 

 righteous blow ; he was fearless to act because he sought 

 neither reward nor praise, he saw only something to \x done 

 and himself the appointe<i <loer. For he lielieved ullerly in 

 God. lie was but an instrument ; yet a moral instrument. 

 His work was to find out what t!od would have done, and to 

 do it. If others did the like, the work would be done ; if 

 others blenched or went astray, there would be failure ; but he 

 might do his part. He believed in God, and God would guide 

 him. He could nut doubt this, for it would be doubt of God. 

 lie would not trust his mvn judgment, or the juilgmcnt of any 

 other man; (loil would show him (he way and he would go, 

 nunc should turn him aside. " I will do what God wills, and 

 wh.at I choose," he wrote from Khartoum. It was not arro- 

 gance, it w.ts not the hypocrisy that covers self-seeking with 

 the clonk of zeal ; it w.is the profound humility and truthfulness 

 of the man who cares for nothing, in success or in failure, but 

 to work out the divine purpose. That was his heroism. 



He concludes with this terse par.igraph : — 

 ( >n the day of King Ivhv.ircr> funeral I found two Canadian 

 soldiers w.andcring listlcsilv about .Si Paul's. I look thcnj l^i 

 Gotiliin's tomb — a !ond) euiply uf honoured dust, bul reminis- 

 cent of Ihc spirit. Tliiv stood to ullnilion. 



