STATISTICAL STUDY OF EMINENT WOMEN 



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The French Kevolution brought into prominence many men not truly great, 

 and the position then attained by France is not held in the nineteenth century. 



The figures for the last century reveal a third period of Italian ac- 

 tivity, chiefly in music and literature. In so far as the data for the 

 nineteenth century are reliable, America gives greater promise for the 

 immediate future than any other nation. 



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.Cueve III. The Ndmbeb of Eminent Women of Different Nationalities 



on the Basis of Population. 



Curve III., which shows the record of these same five nations 

 through the same centuries on the basis of population, is, in one sense, 

 more significant. From the point of view of the number of eminent 



