HALL OF FAME MEN. IO7 



There were also on the same side of the house two Harvard 

 graduates and a signer of the Declaration of Independence. What 

 the record of this signer is I have been unable to determine. 



FEMALE INFLUENCE. 



This influence of the female side of the house for good or ill 

 should be borne in mind, because, as we will see when we come 

 to investigations involving only the male side, it will be the explana- 

 tion of many seeming inconsistencies. Thus a man born in class 

 A from his father, but whose mother is the product of successive 

 classes a, would take lower rank, i. e., be of less mental ability, 

 according to the theory of use-inheritance, than some other man 

 born in class B or class C, but whose mother was the product of 

 successive classes A. The amount of mental activity also has its 

 bearing on the matter, but as this can rarely be known we have 

 to depend upon age, which is nothing more than time in which 

 mental activity can be carried on. In whatever way the matter 

 be viewed, it is quite certain that a man of forty-five has used 

 his brain more than the same man has at twenty-five. To deny 

 this would be to assert that he never once used it between the ages 

 of twenty-five and forty-five. Such a thing might be true of a 

 Rip Van Winkle, but it could hardly be true of any one else. 



JOHN MARSHALL. 



We see this matter of mental activity and female influence 

 both exercised in the case of John Marshall, one of the two cases 

 in which both the persons named and the father have their birth- 

 ranks represented by small letters. John Marshall was born Sep- 

 tember 24, 1755, and was the son of Col. Thomas Marshall, born 

 April 2, 1730, who was the son of Capt. John Marshall, born 



