Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 87, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1917 — Great Thoughts In Prison. [ARTICLE]

Great Thoughts In Prison.

Prison literature has many fine productions to its credit in prose as well as poetry, says the London Chronicle. In his prison at Athens, Socrates completed his great argument for immortality; in a Roman dungeon Galileo made some of his greatest discoveries, In his prison in the Wartburg castle Luther translated the New Testament into the German language. Duridjfr his 12 years in Bedford jail Bunyan dreamed his immortal dream of the “Pilgrim’s Progress.” Sir Walter Raleigh wrote his fragmentary history of the world to beguile the long years of his imprisonment in the Tower of London. Much of the New Testament also Is prison literature. Some of the finest of the epistles of St Paul were written during his imprisonment at Rome, and the book of the* Revelation of St John was written while he was an exile in the island prison of Patmos.