“Some men, on leaving
this vale of tears, are fortunate enough to leave behind them
tangible and lasting evidence of their greatness. Their memories are
perpetuated in the minds of generations to come by, perhaps, books
they have written, discoveries they have made or edifices they have
designed.
What man living today, can
pick up a copy of Oliver Twist without the magic name of
Dickens immediately springing to mind? Who can look at an apple
without thinking of Sir Isaac Newton (Discoverer of the Law of
Gravity) or, perhaps, William Tell? A dullard, too, must he be who,
on looking at a postcard of the Taj Mahal, does not remember Shah
Jehan and his wife Mumtaz.”
From “The Journal of
Edwin Carp” edited by Richard Haydn.
