Heredity of the Intellect. 77 



NEWTON, like many men of genius, stands alone. Galton, however, 

 thinks Charles Hutton, the mathematician, and James Hutton, 

 the geologist, were his remote descendants. 

 OERSTED, Danish physicist ; 



His brother and his nephew were statesmen ; 

 His son, a naturalist and traveller 

 PLATO left no children ; 



His nephew, Speusippos, was head of the Platonic school after 



the master's death. 

 PLINY (the Elder), naturalist ; 



His nephew, Pliny the Younger. 

 SAUSSURE, Swiss geologist and physicist j 



His father, author of works on agriculture and statistics ; 

 His son, a naturalist 

 SAY, Jean-Baptiste, his son, Horace, and his grandson, Le'on, a 



family of political economists. 



STEPHENSON, George, and his son Robert, both celebrated en- 

 gineers. 

 WATT, James. His mother, Agnes Muirhead, was a superior 



woman ; 



His grandfather was a humble professor of mathematics ; 

 Hisfat/ier was baillie of Glasgow for twenty years; 

 One of his sons, who died at the age of twenty-seven, gave great 

 promise as a geologist, and was the friend of Sir Humphrey 

 Davy. 



AUTHORS AND MEN OF LETTERS. 



ADDISON, one of the best prose writers of England, minister in the 



reign of George I. ; 



His/0//&r, a very learned divine and author. 

 ARNOLD, Thomas, Head-Master of Rugby School, one of the 



reformers of public instruction in England ; 

 His son, Matthew, poet and critic. 

 BOILEAU, Nicolas, falls rather under this category than under that 



of imagination ; 

 His two brothers, Jacques, Doctor of the Sorbonne, and Gilles, 



both authors. 

 BOSSUET. We may, perhaps, class with him 



His nephew, Bishop of Troyes, who edited his uncle's works. 



