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Scandinavia Tables II, III and IV Age of Reproduction 

 at different periods Law of probabilities Fame not com- 

 mensurate with mental ability. 



CHAPTER VI. 

 HALL OF FAME MEN 93 



Ancestry of Beecher. Diagram for Beecher, Fig. 4 

 Ancestry of twenty-five men, Table V Birth-ranks of 

 twenty-five men, Fig. 5 Fig 6 and its explanation 

 College educated ancestors. 



Special cases : Webster Edwards Gray Whitney 

 Franklin Audubon Farragut Irving Lee Washington 

 Lincoln Channing Marshall Longfellow. 



General Discussion: Average birth-ranks for the 

 group Average ancestral birth-rank, Table VI Fig. 7 

 Rearrangement, Table VII Extreme groups. 



CHAPTER VII. 

 GREAT MEN OF ANCIENT TIMES 1 16 



Method of Procedure and Estimating: Unknown 

 dates Collateral evidence De Jussieu family Approxi- 

 mating birth-ranks Estimating for different members of a 

 family. 



Biblical characters : Joseph Moses David Solomon 

 Rehoboam. 



Religious reformers: Confucius Lao-tse Buddha 

 Mohammed. 



lAncient Greece: Laws of Lycurgus Age of marriage 

 in Athens Alexander Philip of Macedon Aristotle 

 Alcibiades Pericles Kings of Sparta Ptolemy Phila- 

 delphus. 



Rome: Augustus Caesar and Caesarion Scipio Afri- 

 canus Sulla Cato Pliny The Grecchi Claudius 

 Seneca. 



