PALACE FOR A PHILOSOPHER

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2143, 8 May 1914, Page 8

PALACE FOR A PHILOSOPHER

Professor Harold Hoffding, the emine ent philosopher and man of letters, who " is widely known for, among other things, a penetrating criticism of Rousseau, has just been awarded what must be tho most munificent prize open to a , scholar (says a Homo exchange). " Some years ago Mr. Jacobsen, the ,r great." brewer of Copenhagen, left his I, palace of Carlsberg to go on tho death of his son to tho man whom tho Danish j. Acadomv of Sciences should adiudge to n be "the man who ban deserved best of his Danish Fatherland." Recently the son died, and the choice of the Academy •f has fallen upon Professor Hoffding. Carlsberg is a fine place with magnifiD cent gardens, and it will not be an honour beyond bearing by a simple 53 scholar, for part of Mr. Jacobsen's nr- ?" rangement is that the man whom the Academy delights to honour shall receive iU an allowance "equal to the salary of the highest official in .Denmark." It may ' e seem n trifle crude 1o distinguish a philosopher with a palace and a large salary, but there is something unquestionably fine about the idea that there |„ is no better servant of the State than of tho man who enriches its thought, and ui therefore none better deserving of re- , ward.