CONTENTS. 9 



CHAPTER VIII. 



PAGE 



Great Men of Modern History 133 



Scope of Inquiry: — Number wanted — Who omitted — 

 Reasons for discrimination. 



Great Britain : — Alfred the Great — Bacon — Shake- 

 speare — The Herschels — The Darwins — Fig. 8. Hunter — 

 Pitt — Cromwell. 



Europe: — Cuvier — Lamarck — Humboldt — Napoleon. 



CHAPTER IX. 

 Great Men of the World 142 



The number of men included — Classification — Tables 

 VIII to XXI — Explanation of tables — Comparison of men 

 in different tables — Quotation from Prof. Lombroso — 

 Comparison by numbers, Fig. 9 — Men whose birth-ranks 

 are partially or wholly unknown — Impossibility of equal- 

 izing tables — Ten men from ten countries — Evidence from 

 one man alone. 



CHAPTER X. 

 Mental Aptitudes 164 



Hypothetical life history of man — Relation of mental ap- 

 titude to birth-rank — Sample groups — Discussion of groups 

 —Tabulation by birth-ranks and mental aptitudes — Exam- 

 ination of apparent exceptions — Custom reversing natural 

 aptitudes — Generals Lee and Grant — Channing, Cotton, 

 Mather, Locke — Eight poets compared as to character, and 

 also as to mental ability — Goethe, Pope and Schiller. 



CHAPTER XL 

 Eminent Families 178 



Galton's analysis — Opportunities of sons of prominent 

 families — Supposed reason why they do not become eminent 

 — The Bach family — The Carpzov family — The Carnot 



