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POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY. 



Lycurgus followed by the rise of Greek civilization and culture the 

 most notable event in the world's history. Here we have a race as 

 superior to us as we are to the negroes a great race, for whose origin 

 we can no more account than we can explain the birth of Shakespeare 

 at Stratford-on-Avon. The curve shows the progress of the Greek race 

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The Curve Represents the Distribution of the Thousand Most Eminent Men of His- 

 tory from 600 B. C. to the First Half of the Nineteenth Century. The numbers are given 

 on the left side, the ordinates or height of the curve above the base line representing the num- 

 ber of eminent men born in each half century. Thus there were five preeminent men born be- 

 tween 600 and 550 B. C and 241 in the second halt of the eighteenth century. As men attain 

 eminence about fifty years later than they are born, the periods of productivity are one place 

 further to the right. 



statesmanship, in philosophy, in literature, in art and its more sudden 

 decline in the third and second centuries before Christ. But the 

 supremacy relinquished by the Greeks was grasped by the iron hand 

 of the Romans, who in the centuries just before Christ rise rapidly and 

 then fall. The relation of Greek to Roman civilization is shown in 

 a separate figure. 



