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THi' Twenty (iRF.atest Mf.n? 



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md after him Jfremiah in iniliatinu; a spiiiwal 

 rcvoluiioii in the Hebrew religion. 



" From Greece come Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, and 

 Pericles ; from Rome Julius Caesar ; and then follows 

 that wondrous embodiment of the best of Greece and 

 Rome, and of Christianity, the Apostle Paul. 



"The New World comes into being with Columbus, 

 and the Renaissance finds its religious and ethical 

 issues in Majtin Luther. 



"'l"o Gutenberg is assigned the primacy in the 

 distribution of ideas. 'I'he ' myriad-minded ' Shake- 

 speare wins the vote in literature. John Smyth is the 

 discoverer of the modern doctrine of Liberty of Con- 

 science, and Cromwell pioneered its ultimate sway in 

 politics. Newton, Franklin, Watt, and Stephenson 

 lake their place without ([uestion as leaders of the 

 changes etlected by the study of the heavens and the 

 earth, by electricity and by steam and locomotion. 

 D.irwi-n Supplies a new reading of the world of life, 

 and prepares for radical and far-reaching changes in 

 theology and history, in politics and religion." 



Abraham, B.C. 2153. 



Moses, 15th century B.C. 



Jeremiah, B.C. 580. 



Pericles, about 490 B.C. 



Socrates, B.C. about 469. 



Plato, B.C. 427. 



.Vristotle, B.C. 384 — B.C. 322. 



Julius Cai.sar, B.C. too— B.C. 44. 



Paul. 



Gutenberg, .\. i>. 1400 — 1468. 



Columbus, 1435 — 1506. 



Luther, 1483 — 1546. 



Shakespeare, 1564 — 1616. 



John Smyth, 1570—1612. 



Cromwell, 1599—1658. 



Newton, 1642 -1727. 



Franklin, 1706 — 1790. 



Watt, 1736 — 1819. 



Stephenson, 1781 — 1848. 



Darwin, 1809—1882. 



Thk Skcrkiarv of the Free Church Councii,. 

 .Another leading Free Churchman who has com- 

 piled a list of the twenty greatest men is the Rev. 

 F. B. Meyer, Secretary of the Free Church Council, 

 who says: " 'I'here is an ambiguity in the word 

 •greatest.' Does it mean those who conferred the 

 greatest utilitarian benefits on the world, or those 

 whose moral character and influence have tended to 

 the uplift of humanity ? A man who is the author 

 of a mechanical iiivention docs not seem to me to be 

 necessarily a great man." 



Moses, 15th century B.C. 



Cyrus, B.C. 590— B.C. 529. 



Confucius, B.C. 551 — B.C. 479. 



Sakya-muni (Buddha), 5th century B.C. 



Plato, B.C. 427. 



Juli-.is Cx-sar, B.<'. 100 — B.C. 44. 



Paul, A. 1 1. 1st century. 



Charlemagne, A.D. 742 — 814. 

 Bernard, St., 1091 — 1153. 

 Francis d'.Assisi, 1182 — 1226. 

 Dante, 1265 — 1321. 

 Columbus, 1435 — 15°6- 

 Luther, 1483— 1546. 

 Xavier, 1506 — 1552. 

 ■" Shakespeare, 1564 — 16 16. 

 Galileo, 1564— 1642. 

 Cromwell, 1599—1658. 

 Newton, 1642 — 1727. 

 Lincoln, 1809 — 1865. 

 Livingstone, 1813 — 1873. 



Mr. Walter Crane. 

 Mr. Walter Crane in sending his list — which con- 

 tains only one name on Mr. Carnegie's list and foiir 

 on Mr. Frederic Harrison's — points out that it is 

 impossible absolutely to decide who are the twenty 

 greatest, especially as many of the greatest men remain 

 anonymous. Mr. Crane writes : " I should be 

 inclined to add to the twenty greatest men the un- 

 known discoverer of the wheel, including the potter's 

 wheel, the inventor of spinning and weaving, and of 

 the plough and spade." 



/I'^sop, about 620 B.C. — 560 B.C. 



Cincinnatus, about 520 B.C. — 435 B.C. 



Phidias, about 490 B.C. 



Socrates, about 469 B.C. 



Aristotle, 384 B.C.— 322 B.C. 



Lucretius, 98 B.C.— 55 B.C. 



Alfred the Great, 849—901. 



Roger Bacon, 12 14 — 1292. 



Dante, 1265 — 132 1. 



Giotto, 1276 — 1336. 



Leonardo da Vinci, 1452 — 15 19. 



Albert Durer, 1471 — 1528. 



Michael Angelo, 1475 --T564. 



Sir Thomas .More, 1478 — 1535. 



Shakespeare, 1564 — 1616. 



Galileo, 1564— 1642. 



Newton, 1642 — 1727. 



Shelley, 1792 — 1822. 



Darwin, 1809— 1882. 



Karl NLar.x, 1818 -1883. 



Sir W. B. Richmond. 



Cheops (Pyramid builder). 



Totinus, the inventor of the s[)inning wheel. 



Moses, 15th century B.C. 



Homer, loth or nth century B.C. 



l^ycurgus, about 820 B.C. 



Pheidias, 5th century B.C. 



Plato, 427 B.C. 



Aristotle, B.C. 384— B.C. 322. 



Julius Ca2sar, B.C. 100 — B.C. 44. 



Alfred (KHig), 849 — 901. 



Dante, 1265 — 1321. 



Columbus, 1435 — 1506. 



Leonardo da Vinci, 1452 — 15 19. 

 Michael Angelo, 1475 — 1564. 



