CHAPTER VI. 



HALL OF FAME MEN. 



In carrying out this inquiry into the ancestors of the Hall of 

 Fame Men, I made for each person a diagram like the following 

 one given for Beecher: 



This shows that Henry Ward Beecher was born June 24, 1813, 

 and was the son of Lyman Beecher, who was born October 12, 

 1775, and was graduated at Yale College. We thus see that the 

 father of Henry was not only given an education that developed 

 his brain in youth, but that he was more than thirty-eight years of 

 age when his son was born, and consequently had had a great many 

 years in which to use his brain, and the opportunity to transmit the 

 effects of such use, if there is such a thing as use-inheritance. The 

 date of birth of Lyman's father David is not given, so we cannot 



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