38 HEREDITY AND CHRISTIAN PROBLEMS 



for its manifestation. The family of yEschylus 

 numbered eight poets. Burns had his mother's 

 sensibiUty. 



Coleridge was a poet and a metaphysician. The 

 following abridged list of his descendants is taken 

 from Galton. His son Hartley was also a poet, 

 and subject in his precocious childhood to visions. 

 His imagination was singularly vivid, and of a 

 morbid character. He inherited also his father's 

 love for stimulants. The Rev. Derwent Coleridge, 

 another son, was an author likewise, and principal 

 of the Chelsea Training College. The daughter, 

 Sara, was also a writer, and possessed all her 

 father's individual characteristics. She married 

 her cousin, and of this union was born Herbert 

 Coleridge, a philologist. If, now, the lineages of 

 Goethe, Hugo, Milton, etc., are studied, it will 

 hardly need an argument to show that heredity 

 works among the poets. 



Among artists, it is sufficient to note that Flax- 

 man was the son of a moulder of plaster casts ; 

 Thorwaldsen was the son of a poor sculptor ; and 

 Raphael's father was a painter, as was also the 

 mother of Vandyke ; but the law may be studied 

 further in the families of Bassano and Bellini, 

 Paul Veronese, Carracci, Murillo, Teniers, Titian, 

 and Van Der Velde. 



