MENTAL AND MORAL HEREDITY IN ROYALTY. 513 



We notice that the writer refers to his having been educated like 

 the other youths of the day in the debauching school of the regency, but 

 does not make mention of the fact that he was a grandson of the mad 

 Henri Jules. 



The remaining generations had but one, two, and one children 

 respectively. Since Louis IV., Prince of Conde, was of little account, 

 and the remaining pedigrees contain Hesse, Eheinfels, Soubises and 

 Orleans without bringing in intellectual distinction, as far as I know, 

 there appears to be nothing against heredity in the closing chapter of 

 the house. In fact the neurosis appears to have been eliminated 

 through the principle of regression, and we find the last members of 

 the house rather fine heroic types, though not like their Conde ancestors, 

 capable of grappling with difficult conditions. The last of the line, 

 Louis Anthony Henri, Duke d' Enghien, was executed in March, 1804, 

 an act that is commonly regarded as one of the worst stains on the 

 character of Napoleon. 



vol. lxi. — 33 



