Umuntu Umo Alicitile Icingatukoselesha

Kwena, mu kufwaisha ukwishiba ifintu mwaliba no busuma. Natulande pali Alexander von Humboldt. Mu myaka ya ba 1800, uyu mwina German alisambilile sana pa fimenwa ne fipeema kabili alyendawike mu fifulo ashaishibe pa kuti eshibe ifyo fyaba. E calengele amatamba yaba ku lulamba lwa bemba, ku masamba ya South America bayenike ishina lyakwe abati Humboldt Current.

Inshita imo Humboldt atile: “Ukutula fye ku bwaice, nalefwaisha ukufika ku fifulo fya kutali sana uko aba ku Bulaya bashaleya ilingi.” Atile, Icalengele afwaishe sana ukuya kuli fi fifulo ni co “umutima wakwe watendeke ukukumbwa sana ukwishiba ifintu.” Ilyo ali ne myaka 29, aile ku Central America na ku South America uko aendele mu fifulo fyalekanalekana pa myaka 5. Ilyo abwelele alembele icitabo icikalamba icakwete ifipande 30 icalelanda pa fyo aendele ne fyo amwene.

Humboldt alitemenwe fyonse ifyo alesanga mu nyendo shakwe, pamo nga ukukaba no kutalala kwa pali bemba, isabi lyalimo, ne fimenwa alemona umo alepita. Aninine impili, alececeeta imimana, kabili alyendele pali bemba, mu ngalaba. Ifyo Humboldt asangile, e fyo abengi abasambilila sayansi baishiba. Icalengele fyonse ifi, kufwaisha ukwishiba ifintu ifingi kabili mu bumi bwakwe bonse, alefwaya sana ukusambilila ifintu. Mu lyashi Ralph Waldo Emerson alembele, atile, “Humboldt ali pa bantu abacitile ifya kupapusha . . . ica kuti ifyo aacita filatulanga lyonse ukuti fingi sana umuntu engeshiba no kuti bongobongo ya maka kabili ilatwafwa ukwishiba ifintu fyalekanalekana.”

[Icikope pe bula 19]

Alexander von Humboldt