Who are the Twenty Greatest Men? 



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Alexander the Great, B.C. 356— B.C. 323. 

 Julius CKsar, B.C. 100 — B.C. 44- 

 Mohaninied, A.D. 571—632. 

 Charlemagne, 742—814. 

 Alfred the Great, 849—901. 

 Dante, 1265 — 1321. 

 Ciutenherg, 1400 — 1468. 

 Columl.us, 1435 — '506. 

 Lorenzo de Medici, 1448 — 1492. 

 Michael Angelo, 1475 — 1564. 

 Akbar, 1542 — 1605. 

 Shakespeare, 1564 — 1616. 

 Oliver Cromwell, 1599 — 1658. 

 Washington, 1732 — 1799. - 

 Goethe, 1749 — 1832. 

 Napoleon, 1769 — 1821. 

 Stephenson, 1781 — 1848. 

 Lincoln, 1809 — 1865. ' 

 Mr. Selfridge deplores that the list is limited to 

 twenty, and maintains that he would have done a 

 much better list if he had been allowed to name lifty. 

 Sir Joseph Lyons. 

 Adam, who started the whole game. 

 Noah, the first shipbuilder. 

 Alfred the Great, A.D. 849 — 901. 

 Gutenberg, 1400 — 1468. 

 Copernicus, 1473 — 1543. 



Martin I uther, 1483 — 1546. 

 Shakespeare, 1564 — 1616. 



Harvey, 1578— 1657. 



Cromwell, 1599 — 1658. 



Newton, 1642 — 1727. 



Franklin, 1706 — 1790. 



George Stephenson, "1781 — 1848. 



Beaconsfield, 1804 — 1881. 



Ferdinand de Lesseps, 180:; 1894. 



Sir Robert .NLicClure, 1807 — 1873. 



Darwin, 1809 — 1882. 



.Abraham Lincoln, 1809 — 1865. 



Dickens, 181 2 — 1870. 



King Edward, 1841 — 1910. 



Fdi>on, 1847. 



Marconi, 1874. 



Sir J.\mes Reckitt. 



Moses, 15th century B.C. 



Buddha, 51! ■ century B.C. 



("onfucius, B.C. 551 — B.C. 479. 



Socrates, about 469 B.C. 



Julius Cxsar, B.C. 100 — B.C. 44. 



I'aul of Tars\is, ist century'. 



.Mahomet, 571-632. 



.Alfred the Gr^'at, 849 — 901. 



Dante, 1265- -1321. 



Giotli, 1276 1336. 



Van Eyck, 1366 — ;426. 



Columbus, 1435 — '506- 



NLirtin Luther, 1483 — 1546. 



Lord Bacon, 1561--1626. 



Oliver Cromwell, 1599 — 1658. 



John Milton, 1608— 1674. '1 



Sir Isaac Newton, 1642 — 1727. 



George Washington, 1732 — 1799. 



Lord Lister, discoverer of aseptic treatment, 1827. 



Marconi, 1874. 



Mk. IsR.\EL Z.\N C.WILL. 



Mr. Israel Zangwill found himself in agreement 

 with Mr. Carnegie in only two names— Shakespeare 

 and Lincoln. Mr. Zangwill says: "No doubt his 

 inventors have had great influence on civilisation, but 

 to have great influence is not the same thing as to be 

 a great man. Indeed, I should put Mr. Carnegie 

 himself, with his work for peace and literature, before 

 quite a ntmiber of his twenty." 



Moses, 15th century B.C. 



Homer, loth or nth century B.C. 



Confucius, B.C. 551 — B.C. 479. 



Buddha, 5th century B.C. 



Julius Caesar, B.C. 100 — B.C. 44. 



Jesus of Nazareth. 



Socrates, about 469. 



Mahomet, 571 — 632. 



Dante, 1265 — 1321. 



Michael Angelo, 1475 — 15^4. 



Shakespeare, 1564 — t6i6. 



Velasquez, 1599 — 1660. 



Voltaire, 1694 — 1778. 



Washington, 1732 — 1799. 



Goethe, 1749 — 1832. 



Napoleon, 1769 — 1821. 



Beethoven, 1770 — 1827. 



Emerson, 1S03 — 1882. 



Lincoln, 1809— 1865. 



Browning, 181 2 — 1889. 



Mr. Saint Nihal Singh. 

 Mr. Saint Nihal Singh, the well-known Sikh 

 journalist, has compiled a list of his own, which is 

 based upon the idea of including only the names of 

 those who discovered principles rather than those 

 who merely made practical use of the discoveries of 

 others. Mr. Singh says he is not content with a 

 category that commences with the progenitors of the 

 Jewish and Grecian civilisations, and he thinks that 

 both Mr. Frederic Harrison and Mr. Carnegie's lists 

 are defective on account of the individual bias and the 

 conceit peculiar to the while man. He says he in- 

 cludes " two names which may cause comment. One 

 of these is Macaulay, whom I consider to be the 

 maker of modern India. The other is Booker T. 

 Washington, who has done more to inspire self- 

 confidence, self-respect, and sell-lK-lp in the coloured 

 man and woman than any ulhcr human being." 



Manu. 



Moses, 15th century B.(^". 



Homer, loth or nth century B.C. 



Confucius, B.C. 551 — B.C. 479. 



Gautama Buddha, 5th century B.C. 



Alexander the Grc.il, B.C. 356 — B.C. 525. 



Christ. 



