1 68 MENTAL APTITUDES. 



31 to 40, is distinctly typical of what may be generally classed as 

 fine arts. They are musicians, painters, poets and authors. They 

 represent that which is artistic and beautiful, and are most appre- 

 ciated by men between the ages of thirty and forty. 



The fourth group consists of strictly military men and is rep- 

 resentative of the active, aggressive, ambitious and conquering 

 character. In a previously given quotation, Professor Lombroso 

 has characterized three of these men as megalomaniacs, i. e., men 

 whose insane bigheadedness has carried them away from good 

 common sense to a desire to conquer and rule the world. 



NUMERICAL COMPARISON. 



To discover how far these mental characters determine the 

 number of men as well as their quality, I have tabulated all of 

 those for whom I have been able to obtain birth-ranks and I find 

 236 who fall in one or another of these classes. Such a tabulation, 

 however, is somewhat difficult, and is liable to errors because 

 there is sometimes an uncertainty as to just how a particular indi- 

 vidual should be classified. Thus I find one man ranked as a 

 general, as a statesman and as a philosopher. In such a case I 

 assume that his military career was due to the circumstances of his 

 early life, that later events brought him in contact with the politi- 

 cal affairs of his country and compelled the exercise of statesman- 

 ship, but that philosophy was strictly a choice. Consequently I 

 classify such a man under the head of philosophy. To guard as 

 much as possible against errors creeping into such a tabulation, I 

 repeated the tabulation several times, permitting a considerable 

 period of time to elapse between the tabulations. While these 

 tables differ more or less in detail, they are all identical in general 

 results. The table which appears most accurate, and which was 



