130 GREAT MEN OF ANCIENT TIMES. 



In all I have looked for the ancestry of more than a hundred 

 of the great men of Greece, but those given are the only ones about 

 whom I have been able to obtain any definite information. There 

 is an exception to this in that I have found the rank of a number 

 of persons who exist in history only because they were sons of 

 great men. In every such case I have found that they were born 

 during the earlier years of their father's lives. As they are all 

 nobodies, it is not necessary to' give a list of them. They are 

 mentioned here because their existence gives negative evidence in 

 support of the theory of use-inheritance. 



Although the list of Greeks here given is short, enough has been 

 given to show that the age of reproduction 2,200 to 2,500 years 

 ago was very different from what it is today, and from this show- 

 ing we have an explanation of the marvelous Greek intelligence. 



AUGUSTUS. 



Augustus Caesar, the first Emperor of Rome, was born in 63 

 B. C, and was undoubtedly the greatest man, from the mental 

 standpoint, ever produced in the Roman world. Merivale says : 

 "The establishment of the Roman empire was, after all, the greatest 

 political work that any human being ever wrought. The achieve- 

 ments of Alexander, of Caesar, of Charlemagne, of Napoleon, are 

 not to be compared with it for a moment." Octavius, surnamed 

 Augustus because of his intellect, a name hitherto sacred to the 

 gods, found a republic crumbling to fragments and left it an empire, 

 the greatest and most powerful of ancient history. He accomplished 

 with peace and apparent ease that which Julius Caesar dared not 

 approach, and for which he was assassinated on simple suspicion. 

 The tact, skill, diplomacy and mental ability that could accomplish 

 this are not to be lightly considered. 



