The Eyes of Great Men.
An oculist- who has made the human eye a study for thirty years, and who has examined many famous men’s eyes, declared the other day that Jthe ‘ thoroughbred American’ eye was steel blue in colour. ‘ Would you say that black-eyed and browneyed men are deficient in intellect ?’ * Not that, to be sure, since history has afforded some examples of able men whose eyes possessed this pigment. Bub, undeniably, among the people of higher civilisation eyes grow lighter in hue, and there are to-day far more blue eyed persons than there were a century ago. If you will be at pains to inqu re the colour of the eyes of Bismaivk, Gladstone, Huxley, Virchow. Buchner, Renan—in fact, of any of the living great, as well as of the great army of the dead who in life distinguished themselves, you will learn that most of them had, or have, eyes of blue or grey. It has seemed to me that the pigment is in the way ; that it obscures the objects presented to the visual organ, and that the aspiring mind seeking the greatest light casts it off.’
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Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 439, 22 January 1890, Page 4
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