players, engineers, bishops, wrestlers, runners, boxers, LITTLE 

 and players on sweet zithern strings. But these are JOURNEYS 

 not necessarily great men any more than poets, 

 painters, and pianists with wonderful hirsute effects 

 and strange haberdashery are great men. 

 It is intellect and emotion expanded in every direction 

 that gives the true title to greatness. Judged in this 

 way, how rare is the educated man five in six thou- 

 sand years ! And yet one of these five educated men 

 had a brother nearly as great as he. Alexander von 

 Humboldt was past fifty before the world of thinking 

 men realized that he had outstripped his brother 

 William and Alexander would never admit he had. 

 Q These two men, handsome in face, form and feature 

 strong in body and poised in mind, with souls 

 athirst to realize and know happy men, living long 

 'lives of useful effort surely should be classed as 

 educated persons. 



And in passing, let us note that all education is prepar- 

 atory it is life that gives the finals, not college. The 

 education of the Von Humboldt boys was the Natural 

 Method the method advocated by Rousseau the 

 education by play and work so combined that study 

 could never become irksome nor work repulsive. 

 Rousseau said " Make a task repugnant and the worker 

 will forever quit it as soon as the pressure that holds 

 him to it is removed.' 



The parents of William and Alexander von Humboldt 

 carefully studied the new plan of education that was 

 at that time being advocated by some of the best pro- 



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