The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1869-09-18
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On September IA, 1869, the civilized
world united to pay its yasttribute to
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garlsads upon bis gtaye. ASitizM q Athe
repnTR Rc of lei lers. biS Is the fame hat
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to our columns the following eloquent
and ws!l-wzi.ten articie ON Humboldt.
It is from the New York World: a";I ,
To-day, the civilized world hymns its
seagf Of peace in praiseTof one of it's
heroes-an unmailed warrior indeed, yet
one who in the closet has won brighter
and Sbetter;JAsereI lanvels than ShsSe
ever been twined round the brow or won
by the sword Of d soldier. To-day, the
centenary OF the greatest naturalist of
this age-Alexander Won Humboldt
TIVE worlds unite in p !yipg q. worldwide
tfibute to his name, as they have equally
shared in the benefits of his labors. His
fame is no longer confined to- the soil
that is limited by the flow of the great
river or heFaided only in the language of
the fatheriand. It is proclaimed in the
parliament OF man-the federation of the
world;' for it is the common property,
as his deeds have been the common bene-
ft, Of mankind. la
Peace has her victories no less re-
nowned than war; and her victor is
surely as deserving Of universal fame as
he who has desolsted continent and
rendered childless generation, as q sac
ri6ce to his ambition. Not four weeks
since, nation, if not the globe, COM
memorated the hundredth birthday of
r. II
another conqueror claims at least equal
careers and the victories of each. Both
received the highest preparation for
their professions which the age afforded,
and both attained the highest honors of
their following fact which perhaps
may be commended to those who believe
that in arms or science the best is he who
is self-made and worshipper of his
Maker. Both we're endowed with the
highest qualities they needed in their
careers, and both used them to ad-
vantage. Que risked his life in pursuit
OF bubble. At Lodi, Arcola, and
Marengo he won it, but it burst at
Waterloo. For the other there was Jena
in the university. and Ulm in his travels
and discoveries, o sun of Austerlitz' in
his 'Kosmos.' These were triumphs in
deed; an honor to his name, benefit to
his race.
"The history of Frederick Heinrich
Alexander Won Humboldt is the history
of tho natural sciences of this century
But decennium since his death, he has
been promoter in almost every branch
of scientific discovery which at present
engages the attention of natural philoso
piers. To say nothing of his own OBJ
servations in his numerous and extensive
travels, or Of the extraordinary research
and ability which he displayed in treat
ing of created nature, in ascertaining
new facts, and in forming from them
new laws-a talent which he shared
equally with Aristotle alone-it would be
difficult to find modern worker in tho
same school who does not own Humboldt
as his master and predecessor. What he
begnn, others have carried out. When
he suggested, discoverers followed to
success. He gave q new impulse to the
study of organic and inorganic nature
he made wonderful discoveries through
out all her domain; and he showed how
science might be popularized. To dis
cover was with him but a necessary re-
suit Of observation; the induction of
new laws was rs easy as the discovery of
the facts on which they were based; the
popularization of these laws and their
facts was task which even Humboldt
might aspire to. But whatever he
touched he adorned-Quod tetign orna-
rn; and the facts of science and their
immutnble laws fell from his lips, or
flowed from his pen, with grace and
charm which only he, the philosopher of
nature, could throw round narration
which-as the history of truth always
will-seemed stranger than fable. He
did this for comparative anatomy and
physiology, for ethnography and geo.
graphy, for geology and many of it's
kindred sciences. If he were not tho
Law -giver who regulated the distribution
of the fora and fauna of the earth, he
at least discovered and explained the
chief of His laws adjusting it. Others
have surpassed him in special subjects
and special observations, but he, the
Admirable Crichton of natural science,
has surpassed them all in the extent and
success OF his studies, winning in each o
measure of fame which of itself would
have immortalized him.
cit is no mean praise to carry off the
palm of science in an age like this,
which congresses into o. day the pro-
gress of bygone centuries. This was