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Heroes of the Telegraph
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John Munro
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In
his
leisure
hours
Jenkin
wrote
papers
on
a
wide
variety
of
subjects.
To
the
question,
'Is
one
man's
gain
another
man's
loss?'
he
answered
'Not
in
every
case.'
He
attacked
Darwin's
theory
of
development,
and
showed
its
inadequacy,
especially
in
demanding
more
time
than
the
physicist
could
grant
for
the
age
of
the
habitable
world.
Darwin
himself
confessed
that
some
of
his
arguments
were
convincing;
and
Munro,
the
scholar,
complimented
him
for
his
paper
on
Lucretius
and
the
Atomic
Theory.'
In
1878
he
constructed
a
phonograph
from
the
newspaper
reports
of
this
new
invention,
and
lectured
on
it
at
a
bazaar
in
Edinburgh,
then
employed
it
to
study
the
nature
of
vowel
and
consonantal
sounds.
An
interesting
paper
on
Rhythm
in
English
Verse,'
was
also
published
by
him
in
the
SATURDAY
REVIEW
for
1883.
He
was
clever
with
his
pencil,
and
could
seize
a
likeness
with
astonishing
rapidity.
He
has
been
known
while
on
a
cable
expedition
to
stop
a
peasant
woman
in
a
shop
for
a
few
minutes
and
sketch
her
on
the
spot.
His
artistic
side
also
shows
itself
in
a
paper
on
'Artist
and
Critic,'
in
which
he
defines
the
difference
between
the
mechanical
and
fine
arts.
'In
mechanical
arts,'
he
says,
'the
craftsman
uses
his
skill
to
produce
something
useful,
but
(except
in
the
rare
case
when
he
is
at
liberty
to
choose
what
he
shall
produce)
his
sole
merit
lies
in
skill.
In
the
fine
arts
the
student
uses
skill
to
produce
something
beautiful.
He
is
free
to
choose
what
that
something
shall
be,
and
the
layman
claims
that
he
may
and
must
judge
the
artist
chiefly
by
the
value
in
beauty
of
the
thing
done.
Artistic
skill
contributes
to
beauty,
or
it
would
not
be
skill;
but
beauty
is
the
result
of
many
elements,
and
the
nobler
the
art
the
lower
is
the
rank
which
skill
takes
among
them.'
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