MENTAL APTITUDES. 1 67 



MUSIC, POETRY, ART AND LITERA- MILITARISM AND AGGRESSIVENESS. 



TURE. BIRTH-RANKS 31 TO 40. BIRTH-RANKS LESS THAN 31. 



Bach. Alexander. 



Beethoven. Bonaparte. 



Mendelssohn. Charlemagne. 



Goethe. Charles XII. 



Schiller. Decatur. 



Shakespeare. Frederick. 



Angelo. Grant. 



Raphael. Hannibal. 



Rembrandt. Hastings. 



Carlyle. Pompey. 



Goldsmith. Saxe. 



Macaulay. Scipio. 



The first group, consisting of men having birth-ranks of 51 

 and over, is distinctly moral and philosophical in its character, and 

 is typical of the character of old men. They are all sons of old 

 men, some of them sons of very old men. 



The second group consists of men having birth-ranks from 41 

 to 50. They are all statesmen and men of practical intelligence 

 and usefulness. I might have made up this group of twelve from 

 men who have become eminent in the practical arts and sciences, 

 but as this class is slightly less numerous than statesmen at this 

 birth-rank, and as it is somewhat more difficult to classify them, 

 I have omitted them entirely from this branch of my discussion. 

 By tabulation, however, I find that they run closely parallel with 

 statesmen, but are a little more evenly distributed throughout the 

 scale. Another reason for excluding them is that the practical 

 arts and sciences cover a wider range than statesmanship and are 

 consequently less typical of character. 



The third group, consisting of men having birth-ranks from 



