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will, in middle life, be superior to a brother of his who did not 

 have these advantages and who spent his life farming, and this 

 will be true even though the brother were born with better natural 

 intellectual powers. As a consequence, we frequently find our great 

 men coming from a later son of the educated member of the family, 

 and as a social custom made the eldest son the educated member, 

 we see the reason for the prominence of class b line in Fig. 6, as 

 compared to those of the classes c, d and e. The peculiarity of 

 the diagram is, therefore, simply an illustration of the neglected 

 factor of functional activity, and if there had not been a process 

 of selecting- the eldest son as the onlv member of the family to 

 receive a college education, we may feel quite sure that births in 

 classes a, b and c would have been very few, if not non-existing. 



DANIEL WEBSTER. 



Taking up the four individuals who have a class a birth in their 

 ancestries we find that Daniel Webster was born January 18, 1782, 

 and was the. son of Ebenezer. born May 22, 1739; who was son 

 of Ebenezer, born October 10, 1714; son of Ebenezer, born in 

 1667; son of Thomas, born in 1632. Thus, while the father of 

 Daniel was born in class a and only lacked eighteen days of being 

 in class b, the grandfather was born in class A. The father is 

 therefore a class a link between births in classes A and B. The 

 time elapsed between the births of the great-grandfather and Daniel 

 is 114 years, which, divided into three parts, gives an average 

 of 38 years, less a period of growth for each generation, for use. 

 In this case, however, the use principally occurred with the great- 

 grandfather and father, the latter of whom had a college education. 



JONATHAN EDWARDS. 



In the case of Jonathan Edwards we find substantially the same 

 thing, he being born in class E, his father in class a and his grand- 



