"When a great politician dies, or any man who has filled a large space in the public mind, and made a noise in the world, the newspapers long ring with the event. But it is otherwise with the great thinker, the mathematician or the philosopher, who has laboured silently and in comparative seclusion, to extend the boundaries of human knowledge. When such a man is removed by death there are public journals, even among those professedly devoted to literature and science, which can dismiss the event with a few faint and cold remarks.* But time rectifies all that. It is found sooner or later that no reputation, however brilliant, is permanent or durable which does not rest on useful discoveries and real contributions to our knowledge."
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R.H. Hutton, "Professor Boole," in: The British Quarterly Review. (1866), p. 141
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Richard Holt Hutton
1826 – 1897
Richard Holt Hutton (2 June 1826 – 9 September 1897) was an English journalist of literature and religion.
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