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Take this learned man from his university chair, place him on that scene of war where force can alone reign and where the gross appetites are unchained, it is not surprising that his conduct approaches that of savages. *A Culture of Violence.* That is the current judgment and not without reason. The savant and the man, among the Germans, are only too often strangers to each other.
With a sweeping gesture he confessed what a social dreamer there was within him beside the methodical and scrupulous /savant/. His constant endeavour was to bring all back to science, and he was deeply grieved at finding in nature no scientific sign of equality or even justice, such as he craved for in the social sphere.
Rebecca had opened her mouth to overwhelm the poor savant with the truth when a page entered and stood before the Queen. "Well, sirrah," said Elizabeth, "what is your message?" "Sir Percevall Hart craves an audience, your Majesty, for himself and his American friend and client." "Another American!" exclaimed the Queen. "Copernicus Droop!" cried Rebecca.
He would have started for the African coast, and, once there, who can tell to what dangers, to what treachery, he would have been exposed? A single word about Cousin Benedict. The very day of his arrival the worthy savant, after having shaken hands with Mr. Weldon, shut himself up in his study and set to work, as if finishing a sentence interrupted the day before.
He bade the savant to be seated while he read the letter of introduction which had been written by the secretary of the navy. "MY DEAR KILLIGREW: "This will introduce to you Monsieur Ferraud, of the butterfly fame. He has learned of the success of your efforts in the West Indies and South America and is eager to see your collection. Do what you can for him.
Later, mounted on a forest pony an ill-favoured animal with a wall-eye, pink muzzle, bristly upper and hanging lower lip, more accustomed to carry a keg of smuggled spirits strapped beneath its belly than a cosmopolitan savant and social reformer on its back he rode the three miles to Marychurch, proposing there to take the coach to Southampton and, after a measure of rest and refitting, a post-chaise to Canton Magna, his elder brother's fine place lying in a fold of the chalk hills which face the Sussex border.
But be off to bed, for you must be ready to start by four o'clock in the morning." I had given notice of my intended tour to my friend François Sumichrast, a Swiss savant, well known for his discoveries in natural history, in whose company I had undertaken several journeys.
Blair's sister, Mrs. Hellier, was more Scotch in accent than her brother, and she crowned the improprieties of this most remarkable meeting by giving the modest young savant two kisses I am accurate as to the number and saying, "My bonny lad, you needn't mind me; I have three sons as big as yourself."
The great savant was treated by the Queen and the Prince with distinguished consideration, then and ever after. The Prince, on hearing of his death in 1859, wrote to the Crown Princess: "What a loss is the excellent Humboldt! You and Berlin will miss him greatly. People of this kind do not grow on every bush, and they are the glory and the grace of a country and a century."
Gabriel Hamburg was a mighty savant who endured all things for the love of knowledge and the sake of six men in Europe who followed his work and profited by its results. Verily, fit audience though few. But such is the fate of great scholars whose readers are sown throughout the lands more sparsely than monarchs.
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