HALL OF FAME MEN. 



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If we could eliminate the five men born in class A, we would 

 find the remainder pretty evenly distributed, though the absence 

 of any one born to a young father would be unexplainable on the 

 theory that the father took no part beyond transmitting what he 

 received from his ancestors. These five men are, however, from 



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FIG. 5— DISTRIBUTION OF 25 HALL OF FAME 

 MEN BY THEIR BIRTH-RANKS. 



our standpoint of mental greatness, among the greatest in the 

 whole list. If we arrange our list so as to rank these twenty-five 

 men by letters, as is done in the table, we find that those in the 

 higher rank are not only more numerous than those in the lower 

 rank, but as a class they are mentally greater. 



