Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1894-11-15
THE MEN OF 1909.

lue uedIn Ol III. HOLMES recalls Tie
fact that 1909 was wonderful year
for the birth of great men.
1t used to be said that 1869 was the
year in which the great men were born,
and certainly large number of world
renowned persons first saw the light
in that year. Among them were Ma
poleon, Wellington, Brunei, the engin-
eer; Alexander Humboldt, Chateaubri-
and, De Witt Clinton, and many others.
But the year 1909 exceeds this and all
other years for its list of eminent
names. There will be found states
men, soldiers, philosophers, scientists,
poets, musicians and artists, the fore
most men of the century, rarely equal
ed in any age of the world
Among the statesmen who have pre-
served nations one may look in vain
to find men greater than Abraham
Lincoln and William +. Gladstone. As
long as history is read these names
will stand pre-eminent among men.
In the lesser ranks will be found Baron
Haussmann, the rebuilder of Paris,
which he made the most splendid city
in the world, and, fayorite though he
was with Louis Napoleon, he long sur
vived the fall Of the empire and re-
manned popular with the Parisians un-
til his death in 1891.
With Haussmann may be classed in
different ways, such statesmen as Ales-
sandro Gavazzi in Italy and Robert c..
Winthrop and Gen. Schenck in this
country. Of the soldiers belonging to
this year Marshal Canrobert is the
most distinguished, and he will long
be remembered for brilliant services
in the CrimeaD, Italian and Franco
Prussian wars.
Among scientists there is Charles
Darwin, the first to be named, the most
accurate student of nature the world
has known. VOltaire once said that if
parliament of all the scientific men
that ever lived could be assembled Sir
Isaac Newton would be called to the
chair by a unanimous vote. If such a
convention could be assembled now
the chair would assuredly be given to
Darwin. He is one Of the epoch max
ers, and modern science dates from him.
DarWinism is word that has come to
be accepted as scientiic term, mean
ing particular mode of thought and
the world is divided into Darwinians
and anti-Darwinians, the latter being
in decided minority.
After him may be named George r.
Gliddon, the American Psychologist;
Henry Dawson Rogers, the geologist;
Benjamin PIERCE, the grea test of mod
ern mathematlcians; Karl Heinrich
Koch, the German naturalist; Adolphe
Franck, the French philosophical
writer; Fransisque Michel, the French
archaeologist, and James David Forbes,
the Scottish physicist.
The greatest of modern composers
and musicians, Felix Mendelssohn, be-
ongs to this year, man admirable in
his private life and superb in his vo-
cation.
In literature the array is great in
Guiding Tennyson, Poe, Holmes, Mrs.
Browning and Richard Monckton Mil
mes. These names give luster to the
English tongue. The most celebrated
of Danish poets, Frederick Mule Pallu-
dan, also belongs to this year. Names
not so eminent but still worthy of men
ton may be found in this list, like Cy-
rus Mccormack, the inventor; Shelton
Mackenzie, the journalist; Adolph
Frederic Hesse, the German organist;
Frederic Otto, the German chemist
Baron Monteuffel, the Prussian field
marshal, o. S. Flower, the phrenolo,
gist; Albert Zimmerman, the German
and Philippe Augusta Jeanron, the
French painters. In France today
there are few names more eminent
than Jeanron's.
This is but brief catalogue of those
who, born in 1909, have reached dis.
tinction in the various walks of life
1t can readily be supplemented by al
most every reader of the Herald, who
will name women born in that year
who, even on a limited field of action
displayed more than ordinary force
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