The Greatest Minds and Ideas of All Time

I let the reader, then, make his own lists, helping himself to what he likes in mine. Let him try to build for himself another perspective and unity that shall clarify human development for him. And let him remember the words which Napoleon bequeathed to the duke of Reichstadt at St. Helena: “May my son study history, for it is the only true psychology, and the only true philosophy.”

Index

Abelard, Pierre, 19, 30, 72

Achilles, 15

Adams, Henry, 72, 80, 84, 88

Adonais (Shelley), 56, 59

Adventure of Science (Ginzburg), 69

Aeschylus, 41, 54, 57, 70, 83

Africa, 71, 97, 112, 115

agriculture, development of, 94-95, 115

Akbar, Emperor of India, 112, 117

Alcibiades, 110

Alexander the Great, 11, 24, 106

Alexandria, 16-17

Alhambra, 72, 112

America, see United States

Anaxagoras, 28

Ancient Times (Breasted), 106

Andromache, 37, 38-39

animals, conquest of, 94

Anselm of Canterbury, Saint, 19

Anthony, Susan B., 30

Antoninus Pius, Emperor of Rome, 111

Antony, Mark, 109

Aphrodite, 70

Archimedes, 70

Aristotle, 16-18, 19, 23, 25, 30, 70, 83, 101, 107

Asoka, King of India, 117

astronomy, 17, 20, 24

Athenian Assembly, 102

Augustine, Saint, 11, 107

Augustus, Emperor of Rome, 44, 111

Australia, 91, 115

Bach, Johann Sebastian, 75, 91, 107

Bacon, Francis, 18, 21-23, 25, 30, 57, 65, 75, 85, 101, 107, 114

Bacon, Roger, 18, 112-13

Bagdad, 71, 112

Balzac, Honoré de, 79, 87

Beard, Charles A., 88, 106

Beatrice Portinari, 48-51

Beethoven, Ludwig van, 75, 77, 107

Bell, Clive, 75-76

Beowulf, 32

Bergson, Henri, 80, 88

Berkeley, George, 27

Bible, 35, 69, 82, 114

Bismarck, Otto von, 107

Blake,William, 54

Boccaccio, Giovanni, 57

Bonaventure, Saint, 19

books, one hundred “best” for an education, 64-88

Borgia, Cesare, 73

Boswell, James, 76, 86

Botticelli, Sandro, 73

Boyle, Robert, 75

Brahms, Johannes, 77, 107

Brandes, Georg, 26, 78, 87, 111

Brawne, Fanny, 55-56

Breasted, James Henry, 69, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88

Brown, Brian, 69, 82

Brunelleschi, Filippo, 73

Bruno, Giordano, 22-23, 25, 29, 73

Brutus, Marcus Junius, 111

Buckle, Henry Thomas, 78, 87, 100

Buddha, 11, 13, 107, 109, 117

Burckhardt, Jacob, 73

Burke, Edmund, 76

Burns, Robert, 54

Bury, John Bagnell, 69, 82

Byron, George Gordon, Lord, 51, 54, 58, 78, 87, 107

Caesar, Julius, 5, 11, 24, 43, 106, 111

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro, 57, 114

Calvin, John, 109

Cambridge Platonists, 16

“Captain, My Captain” (Whitman), 60

Carlyle, Thomas, 5, 10, 76, 86

Cassandra, 37

Catholic Renaissance, 19

Catullus, 54

Cavour, Camillo Benso, Count, 107

Cellini, Benvenuto, 73, 84

Cervantes, Miguel de, 74, 85, 114

Cezanne, Paul, 107

Chanson de Roland, 32

Chapman, George, 52

Charlemagne, 11, 71

Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, 106

Chartres, Cathedral of, 107

Chaucer, Geoffrey, 54, 57, 72, 84

Cheops, 108

China, 12, 45, 48, 109-10, 112-13, 115, 117

Chopin, Frédéric, 77, 107

Christianity, 12, 18, 73-74, 112

Christian theology, 16

Cicero, Marcus Tullius, 44

Clendening, Logan, 67, 82

Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt, 109

Clodius, 92

Columbus, Christopher, 114-15

Condorcet, Marie Jean, Marquis de, 89

Confucius, 11-13, 17, 30, 69, 81, 107, 109-10

Constantine I, Emperor of Rome, 71

Constantinople, 17, 112

Conversations with Goethe (Eckermann), 78, 87

Copernicus, 20-21, 29, 30, 73, 107, 116-17

Cordova, 71, 112

Correggio, 107

Cromwell, Oliver, 11, 24

Curie, Marie, 107

Dante Alighieri, 11, 17, 19, 48-51, 57, 60, 72, 84, 107

Darius I, King of Persia, 106

Darwin, Charles, 1, 4, 29, 30, 87, 107

Davenant,William, 52

David, King of Israel, 34-35

David (“Psalmist”), 34-36, 107

David Copperfield (Dickens), 79

Declaration of Independence, 60

Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire,The (Gibbon), 71, 84

Democritus, 28-29, 44

De Rerum Natura (Lucretius), 42, 83

Descartes, René, 23, 25, 75

despotism, 26

Dialogues (Plato), 14, 16, 83

Dickens, Charles, 79, 87

Diogenes, 30

Diogenes Laertius, 70, 83

Disraeli, Benjamin, 107

Divine Comedy,The (Dante), 50-51, 84

Donatello, 91

Donati, Gemma dei, 49

Dostoievski, Feodor, 41, 79, 87

Dupreel, M., 15

Eckermann, Johann Peter, 78, 87

Edison, Thomas A., 1

education:

development of, 101-3

Platonic theory of, 15

reading and, 64-69

Egypt, 69, 108-9

Einstein, Albert, 93

Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 74, 106-7

Ellis, Havelock, 80, 88

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 15-16, 61-62, 79-80, 88

Encyclopedie, 22, 76

England, 16, 56, 60, 74, 79, 96-97, 114-15

Enlightenment, 23-24, 26-27, 117

Epictetus, 18, 111

Epicureans, 18, 70

Epicurus, 18, 30, 44, 70

Essex, Robert Devereux, Earl of, 74

eugenics, 15, 97-98

Euripides, 11, 36-42, 54, 70, 83, 107, 110

Europe, 1, 17, 26, 48, 71, 74, 77, 90, 96, 110, 112-13, 115, 117

evolution, 29, 98

Faguet, E., 85, 86, 87

Faure, Elie, 69-70, 72, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 88

Faust (Goethe), 79, 87

feminism, 15, 30

Fielding, Henry, 76, 86

fire, use of, 93-94

Fitton, Mary, 52

Flanders, 75

Flaubert, Gustave, 79, 87

Florence, 48-51, 73

Folkways (Sumner), 68, 82

Forum (Roman), 92, 111

Fragonard, Jean-Honoré, 76