X-Nico

2 unusual facts about Selig Perlman


Selig Perlman

While in high school, he learned Russian and a number of other European languages, and his teachers introduced him to the work of Georgi Plekhanov.

"I cannot bring in... an employers' association and a trade union, put them in a glass case... watch them tussle, higgle, settle their differences -- the way Sir John Lubbock did when he studied bees and ants", he told an audience in 1907.



see also