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This will appear less surprising when we bear in mind that few 

 philosophers have left any posterity. Thus, in modern times, Des- 

 cartes, Leibnitz, Malebranche, Kant, Spinoza, Hume, A. Comte, 

 Schopenhauer, etc., either never married or had no children. 



The exceptions, real or apparent, to the laws of heredity are : 

 Bacon (Roger), Berkeley, Berzelius, Blumenbach, Brewster, Comte, 

 Copernicus, Descartes, Galen, Galvani, Hegel, Hume, Kant, 

 Kepler, Locke, Malebranche, Priestley, Reaumur, Rurnford, 

 Spinoza, Young, etc. 



AMPERE, Andre-Marie, mathematician, physicist, and philosopher ; 



His son, Jean-Jacques, traveller, literary man, historian. 

 ARAGO, FranQois ; 



His three brothers, Jean, Jacques, and Etienne, authors and 



artists ; 



His son, Emmanuel, lawyer, politician. 

 ARISTOTLE. Though ancient genealogies are difficult to make 



out, we may name 

 His father, Nicomachos, physician to Amyntas II., and author 



of medical works ; 

 His son, Nicomachos, held by some to be the author of the 



Ethics which bear his name ; 



His nephew, Callisthenes, son of Hero, a cousin of Aristotle. 

 BACON, Francis ; 



Tfos father, Nicholas, Lord Keeper of the Great Seal ; 

 His mother, Ann Cooke, belorged to a highly-gifted family. She 

 was a distinguished scholar, and was very well versed in 

 Latin and Greek ; 

 His brothers were distinguished men ; among them, Nathaniel, 



a brother by another mother, who was a clever painter. 

 BENTHAM, Jeremy, legist and moralist ; 



His brother, General Samuel Bentham, a distinguished officer ; 

 His nepheu', George, an eminent botanist, president of the 



Linnaean Society. 



BERNOUILLI, Jacques, of Swiss origin, was the first to establish the 

 reputation of this family, which is famous for the number of 



that approves its free inquiry into truth. We will come back to this point 

 when treating of the Laws of Heredity. 



