A STATISTICAL STUDY OF EMINENT MEN. 373 



much more constant in their appearance and bid fair to surpass the 

 others in the twentieth century. 



In passing I may state that modern psychology does not admit that 

 we can divide mental processes into such as are cognitions, such as are 

 feelings and such as are volitions, any more than we can divide physical 

 bodies into such as have size, such as have color and such as have weight, 

 but must rather regard these as aspects of all mental processes. So 



HOO 



1-500 



HOD 



1100 



1S0D 



The Curves Show the Relative Numbers of Men of Action, Men of Thought, and 

 Men of Feeling at Different Periods. 



with our great men if a man excels in action he probably is not 

 deficient in feeling and judgment on the contrary these are probably 

 strong. My statistics show, contrary perhaps to the current opinion, 

 that a man who excels in one direction is likely also to excel in others. 

 An artist is much more likely to be a poet than is an ordinary man and 

 is, though in a less degree, more likely to be a soldier or a man of science. 

 Curves showing further subdivisions are also given. From the 

 upper chart it is clear that there have been more eminent statesmen 

 than soldiers, especially since the beginning of the eighteenth century. 



