St. Mary, Devonshire; educated at Christ's Hospital, London,
and at Jesus College, Cambridge. In the volume of _Lyrical Ballads_ by
Wordsworth of 1798 Coleridge contributed the _Ancient Mariner_, and he
was to make his greatest reputation by this and other poems. His best
prose work was his _Biographia Literaria_ (1817). His _Aids to
Reflection_ was first published in 1825.

{252b} Radowitz, Joseph Maria von (1797-1853). A Prussian general and
statesman; born in Blankenberg and died in Berlin. Fought in the
Napoleonic wars and was wounded at the battle of Leipzig. Afterwards
served as Ambassador to various German Courts. He wrote several
treatises bearing upon current affairs, and his _Fragments_ form Vols. IV
and V of his _Collected Works_ in 5 volumes, which were issued in Berlin
in 1852-53.

{252c} Gioberti, Vincent (1801-1852). An Italian statesman and
philosopher; born in Turin, where he afterwards became Professor of
Theology. Was for a time Court Chaplain, but his liberal views led to
exile, and he retired first to Paris, then to Brussels. Afterwards
became famous as a neo-Catholic with his attempt to combine faith with
science and art, and urged the independence and the unity of Italy. His
_Jesuite moderne_, published in 1847, created a sensation. After some
years of home politics he was appointed by King Victor Emmanuel as
Ambassador to Paris. It is noteworthy in the light of Lord Acton's
recommendation of his _Pensieri_ that his works have been placed on the
Index.

{253a} Humboldt, Friedrich Heinrich Alexander Baron von (1769-1859), the
great naturalist, was born and died in Berlin, and studied at Frankfort-
on-the-Oder, Berlin and Gottingen; he spent five years (1799-1804) in
exploring South America, and in 1829 travelled through Central Asia. His
_Kosmos_ appeared between 1845 and 1858 in 4 volumes.

{253b} De Candolle, Alphonse de (1806-1893). The son of the celebrated
botanist, Augustin Pyramus de Candolle, and was himself a professor of
that science at Geneva. His _Histoire des sciences et des savants depuis
deux siecles_ appeared in 1873.

{253c} Darwin, Charles Robert (1809-1882), the great naturalist and
discoverer of natural selection, was born at Shrewsbury, where he was
educated at the Grammar School, at Edinburgh University, and at Christ's
College, Cambridge. His most famous book, _The Origin of Species by
means of Natural Selection_, was first published in 1859.

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