Plutarch lives.(M.E.M.O)(Editorial) The Christian Century | November 30, 2004| | COPYRIGHT 2004 The Christian Century Foundation. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

IN THE LAST letter Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote from prison, he asked, "Father, could you get me from the library Plutarch's Lives of Great Men?" We do not know if the book ever reached the captive. I hope it did; few books could have provided more comfort.

Plutarch's reach is very broad. Some years ago I was asked to write an article on "what was in the water in Wahoo." A century ago that Nebraska town had only a few hundred citizens, but in one ten-year period it produced five little boys who grew up to be 20th century great men: Howard Hanson, composer and head of ...

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