14 HEREDITY. 



age rank in ability, were likely to drift into the 

 artisan class. The upper order contained a great 

 mass of exceedingly able individuals. Perhaps there 

 never has been such a development of genius as oc- 

 curred after this unconscious natural selection began 

 in the unrolling of Athenian history. 



5. In two centuries, or from £00 to 300 B.C., the 

 Greek race produced the following illustrious per- 

 sons, twenty-eight in number : — 



These were statesmen and commanders — Milti- 

 ades, Leonidas, Themistocles, — mother an alien, — 

 Aristides, Cimon, Epaminondas, Phocion, Pericles. 



These were philosophers and men of scie. ice — 

 P} r thagoras, Socrates, Hippocrates, Euclid, Plato, 

 Aristotle. 



These were poets — Anacreon, iEschylus, Pindar, 

 Euripides, Sophocles, Aristophanes. 



These were architects, sculptors, and artists — 

 Apelles, Phidias, and Praxiteles. 



These were historians — Herodotus, Thucydides, 

 Xenophon. 



These were orators — ^sebines and Demosthenes. 



6. Almost without exception these twenty-eight 

 men were either born, nurtured, or educated, in At- 

 tica ; and they all, without exception, owed inspira- 

 tion to her. 



7. But take Attica alone, and we find that in 

 a single century she produced fourteen of these 

 twenty-eight illustrious men. 



8. Attica contained, in the best days, of Greece, a 

 population of only about ninety thousand free per- 



