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HEREDITY AND CHRISTIAN PROBLEMS 



with a view to keeping up a sort of patriarchal 

 bond of union. This custom was continued until 

 nearly the middle of the eighteenth century, and 

 very often there gathered together more than one 

 hundred persons bearing the name of Bach — 

 men, women, and children. In this family are 

 mentioned twenty-nine eminent musicians. Fetis, 

 in his " Dictionnaire Biographique," mentions fifty- 

 seven members of this family. 



As further evidence of mental heredity note, 

 among scientists, the families of Aristotle, Bacon, 

 Bentham, and James Watt; and among men of 

 letters, the families of Addison, Thomas Arnold, 

 Hallam, Macaulay, Seneca, and Madame de Stael. 

 Dr. Galton attempted to prove that genius is 

 hereditary. The following are samples of his 

 many illustrations. 



The Adams Family.^ 

 John Adams, second President of the United States. 

 John Quincy Adams, sixth President of the United States. 

 Charles Francis Adams, Minister to England, etc. 

 Charles Francis Adams, Jr., scholar and statesman. 

 John Quincy Adams, son of Charles Francis, student of social 



problems. 



The Darwin Family. ^ 



Dr. Erasmus Darwin, physician, physiologist, and poet ; his 

 father a man of letters, eminent in his time. 



'^Hereditary Genius, Galton, p. 124. "^ Ibid. p. 209, 



