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Scandinavia — Tables II, III and IV — Age of Reproduction 

 at different periods — Law of probabilities — Fame not com- 

 mensurate with mental ability. 



CHAPTER VI. 

 Hall of Fame Men 93 



Ancestry of Beecher. — Diagram for Beecher, Fig. 4 — 

 Ancestry of twenty-five men, Table V — Birth-ranks of 

 twenty-five men, Fig. 5 — Fig 6 and its explanation — 

 College educated ancestors. 



Special cases : — Webster — Edwards — Gray — Whitney — 

 Franklin — Audubon — Farragut — Irving — Lee — Washington 

 — Lincoln — Channing — Marshall — Longfellow. 



General Discussion: — Average birth -ranks for the 

 group — Average ancestral birth-rank, Table VI — Fig. 7 — 

 Rearrangement, Table VII — Extreme groups. 



CHAPTER VII. 

 Great Men of Ancient Times 116 



Method of Procedure and Estimating: — Unknown 

 dates — Collateral evidence — De Jussieu family — Approxi- 

 mating birth-ranks — Estimating for different members of a 

 family. 



Biblical characters: — Joseph — Moses — David — Solomon 

 — Rehoboam. 



Religious reformers: — Confucius — Lao-tse — Buddha — 

 Mohammed. 



'Ancient Greece: — Laws of Lycurgus — Age of marriage 

 in Athens — Alexander — Philip of Macedon — Aristotle — 

 Alcibiades — Pericles — Kings of Sparta — Ptolemy Phila- 

 delphus. 



Rome: — Augustus — Caesar and Csesarion — Scipio Afri- 

 canus — Sulla — Cato — Plin> — The Grecchi — Claudius — 

 Seneca. 



