[265] Phocion (402-317 b.c.), Athenian statesman and general. (See note [364].)
[266] Anaxagoras (500-426 b.c.), Greek philosopher of distinction.
[267] Diogenes (400?-323?), Greek cynic philosopher who affected great contempt for riches and honors and the comforts of civilized life, and is said to have taken up his residence in a tub.
[268] Henry Hudson (—— - 1611), English navigator and explorer, discoverer of the bay and river which bear his name.
[269] Bering or Behring (1680-1741), Danish navigator, discoverer of Behring Strait.
[270] Sir William Edward Parry (1790-1855), English navigator and Arctic explorer.
[271] Sir John Franklin (1786-1846?), celebrated English navigator and Arctic explorer, lost in the Arctic seas.
[272] Christopher Columbus (1445?-1506), Genoese navigator and discoverer of America. His ship, the Santa Maria, appears small and insignificant in comparison with the modern ocean ship.
[273] Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821), Emperor of France, one of the greatest military geniuses the world has ever seen. He was defeated in the battle of Waterloo by the Duke of Wellington, and died in exile on the isle of St. Helena. Emerson takes him as a type of the man of the world in his Representative Men: "I call Napoleon the agent or attorney of the middle class of modern society.... He was the agitator, the destroyer of prescription, the internal improver, the liberal, the radical, the inventor of means, the opener of doors and markets, the subverter of monopoly and abuse.... He had the virtues of the masses of his constituents: he had also their vices. I am sorry that the brilliant picture has its reverse."