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A mathematician who solves a pro- tound problem, a poet who creates an image of beauty 111 the mind that was not there before, imparts know- ledge and power to others, in which his greatness and his fame consists, and on which it reposes. Jedediah Jiuxton will be forgotten ; but Napier's bones will live. J. Awgivers, philosophers, founders of religion, con- querors and heroes, inventors and great geniuses in arts and sciences, are great men, for they are great public benefactors, or formidable ...scourges to mankind Among ourselves, Shakespeare, Newton, Bacon, Mil- ton, Cromwell, were great men, for they showed great power by acts and tlioughts, which have not yet been consigned to oblivion. They must needs be men of lofty stature, whose shadows lengthen out to remote posterity. A great farce-writer may be a great man ; tor Molicre was but a great farce-writer. Lu my mind. WILLIAM HAZLITT 249 the author of Don Quixote was a great man. So have there been many others. A great chess-player is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it.
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