Note 384 — Chapter V · UNIVERSITY MEN AND NATIONAL MOVEMENTS
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Miss Nightingale is taken as a representative of the work of Howard, Clarkson, Shaftesbury, Hannah More, Mrs. Fry, and others of the same noble army among whom she is perhaps typical for the English adventuresome and pioneer spirit.
It would not be possible to choose 40 great Englishmen whom every one should agree to be among the 40 greatest, or the best types in the lines indicated. Some great English names—as e.g. Simon de Montfort—do not appear for the same reason which excludes William the Conqueror, viz. that they were not Englishmen.
The following is a short analysis:—
(1) Men representing English Learning and education: Hild. Bede. Alcuin. Alfred. Grosseteste. William of Wykeham. Lady Margaret. Dean Colet, Ox. Bishop Fisher, C. Thomas More, Ox. Roger Ascham, C. (2) English Churchmen: Stephen Langton. Robert Grosseteste, Ox. William of Wykeham. Fisher, C. Wolsey, Ox. Cranmer, C. Jeremy Taylor, C. (3) English Religion: Wyclif, Ox. Lady Margaret. More, Ox. Jeremy Taylor, C. Bunyan. Wesley, Ox. (4) English politics: Alfred. Stephen Langton. Grosseteste, Ox. Edward I. Elizabeth. Cromwell, C. Milton, C. John Locke, Ox. Pitt, C. Gladstone, Ox.
(5) Literature and makers of English language: Bede. Chaucer, C. Ascham, C. Philip Sidney, Ox. Shakespeare. Francis Bacon, C. Milton, C. Bunyan. Locke, Ox. (6) Philosophers: Locke. Mill. (7) English Science: Roger Bacon, Ox. Francis Bacon, C. Harvey, C. Newton, C. Darwin, C. (8) English Adventure: Drake. Raleigh. Clive. Nelson. Nightingale.