fridthiof

Updated: May 18, 2025

So the small Scandinavian nations have given to the world famous men of science, from Linnaeus downwards, poets like Tegner and Björnson, scholars like Madvig, dauntless explorers like Fridthiof Nansen. England had, in the age of Shakespeare, Bacon, and Milton, a population little larger than that of Bulgaria to-day.

Edward Carpenter - The Healing of Nations and the Hidden Sources of Their Strife