CONTENTS. 9 



CHAPTER VIII. 



PAGB 



GREAT MEN OF MODERN HISTORY 133 



Scope of Inquiry: Number wanted Who omitted 

 Reasons for discrimination. 



Great Britain : Alfred the Great Bacon Shake- 

 speare The Herschels The Darwins Fig. 8. Hunter 

 Pitt Cromwell. 



Europe: Cuvier Lamarck Humboldt Napoleon. 



CHAPTER IX. 

 GREAT MEN OF THE WORLD 142 



The number of men included Classification Tables 

 VIII to XXI Explanation of tables Comparison of men 

 in different tables Quotation from Prof. Lombroso 

 Comparison by numbers, Fig. 9 Men whose birth-ranks 

 are partially or wholly unknown Impossibility of equal- 

 izing tables Ten men from ten countries Evidence from 

 one man alone. 



CHAPTER X. 

 MENTAL APTITUDES 164 



Hypothetical life history of man Relation of mental ap- 

 titude to birth-rank Sample groups Discussion of groups 

 Tabulation by birth-ranks and mental aptitudes Exam- 

 ination of apparent exceptions Custom reversing natural 

 aptitudes Generals Lee and Grant Channing, Cotton, 

 Mather, Locke Eight poets compared as to character, and 

 also as to mental ability Goethe, Pope and Schiller. 



CHAPTER XL 

 EMINENT FAMILIES 178 



Gallon's analysis Opportunities of sons of prominent 

 families Supposed reason why they do not become eminent 

 The Bach family The Carpzov family The Carnot 



