Word: thinkers
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...many thought the best historian to successfully gauge the character of the Greek state. His clear and concise statements of the doctrine of "might makes right," his broad criticism of a narrow policy, and his independence of prejudice and envy have made him one of the most eminent historical thinkers the world has ever produced. Thucydides's greatest work, "The Peloponnesian War," is remarkably free from the multitude of trivial details and stories usually inserted by his contemporaries, presenting, on the contrary, the serious attempt of an historical thinker to present the trends and currents marked by the events...
...matter of fact, orthodoxy is universal; many men of the most heterodoxical opinions in some walks of life are narrowly orthodoxy in others. Robert Ingersoll, the remarkably heterodoxical religious thinker, is a striking example of this, as his ideas in politics were narrow-gauge republican. Opposite orthodoxy stands liberty; but in our own age the freedom of the individual is often confused with the higher and nobler liberty of the intellect and the sprit. This must needs express the liberty of the individual to attain its ends, as true liberty is the untrammeled freedom of truth...
...regard to the poems of Longfellow, that while they would have been of value at any time and place, their worth towards the foundation of the literature of a new world was priceless. The first need for creating such a literature in America was, no doubt, a great original thinker such as was afforded us in Emerson. Yet Longfellow rendered a service only secondary, in enriching and refining that literature and giving it a cosmopolitan culture, providing for it an equally attentive audience in the humblest log-cabins on the prairies or in the more distant literary courts...
George Foot Moore, "Professor in this University of the history of religion, scholar, preacher, teacher, and author, and in every function an exact, erudite, wise, and fertile thinker...
Professor Ostwald is regarded as one of the founders of the modern science of physical chemistry, and he has achieved a position of the highest rank in the scientific world, not only as an investigator and thinker, but also as a reformer, organizer, and teacher in the field of natural science. In 1887 Professor Ostwald helped in the founding of the Zeitschrift fur physikalische Chemie, and in 1901 he established the Annalen der Naturphilosophie. In 1904 he gave the Faraday Lecture before the Royal Society. He has been a prolific and indefatigable investigator and writer. Although he first achieved eminence...