Humboldt by Hubbard, Travels/Cosmos 1807-1845
Channel: Craig Campbell
Date: 2014-12-09

Elbert Green Hubbard 1856-1915 started out selling soap and ended up selling socialism. He wrote essays about different people by rank of profession as well as many other books. 

This book is about scientists and this essay is about William and Alexander von Humboldt, Prussian leaders during the nineteenth century. I found it interesting because it was written in 1905 but sounds like it could come out of today's newspapers. 

This is from Little Journeys To the Homes of the Great
http://www.online-literature.com/elbert-hubbard/

Here is a book by Alexander von Humboldt
Cosmos: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/14565

And one by William von Humboldt
The Philosophic Grammar of American Languages
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/36646

Biography of the Humboldts 1852
https://archive.org/details/livesofbrothersh1852klen