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Harrison lists Carnegie twenty greatest men debate over test of greatness
Frederic Harrison, an octogenarian scholar, offers a list of twenty great men including Moses Homer Aristotle Archimedes Julius Caesar St Paul Dante Gutenberg Columbus Shakespeare Newton Franklin Watt Washington Comte Darwin and others, while criticizing Andrew Carnegie's exclusions and stressing differing tests of greatness.
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London
Andrew Carnegie
Atlantic
Frederic Harrison
Harrison
Moses
Homer
Aristotle
Archimedes
Julius Caesar
St. Paul
Charlemagne
Dante
Gutenberg
Columbus
America
William the Silent
Holland
Shakespeare
Richelieu
France
Newton
Franklin
Frederick the Great
Watt
Washington
Comte
Darwin
Mr. Harrison
Rome
Charles the Great
Europe
Jesus Christ
Carnegie
Burns
Milton
Cromwell
Alfred Russel Wallace
Mr. Carnegie
Dr. Wallace
Socrates
Michael Angelo
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Dickens
R. Owen
Jenner
Homer Buddha
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Phidias
Socrates Alexander Great
Archimed
Alfred the Gre
Michael Angelo Jans