ALFRED NOBEL -- A MAN OF CONTRASTS

        Alfred Nobel, the greate Swedish inventor and industrialist, was a man of many contrasts, He was the son of a bankrupt, but became a millionaire; a scientist with a love of literature, an industrialist who managed to remain an idealist. He made a fortune but lived a simple life, and although cheerful in company he was often sad in private. A lover of mankind, he never had a wife or family to love him; a patriotic son of his native land. he died alone on foreign soil. He invented a new explosive, dynamite, to improve the peacetime industries of mining and road building. but During his useful life he often felt he was useless: ' Alfred Nobel, '  he once wrote of himself, 'ought to have been put to death by a kind doctor as soon as, with a cry, he entered life.' World-famous for his works he was never personally throughout