Word: protagonist
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...differ or reflect. His mind was like an electrical discharge in a tube of rarified gas, a flash light, enormously suggestive. He was seen at his best in some meeting of earnest men, unlearned, but men of affairs, capable of grasping fundamental ideas. There he was the scientific protagonist bringing the truths and sublimity of science down to the comprehension of humanity; and a journey in his company from Boston to New York realized all our ideas of rapid transit. To see him thus the centre of rapt listeners led one to recall Lowell's "Incident in a Railway...