1 60 Heredity. 



and moral qualities from their mother. And this he applied to his 

 own case, speaking in the highest terms of praise of his mother, 

 who in point of fact was a woman of much ability, extensive 

 knowledge, and of a superior mind. 



Mirabeau (Friend of Humanity) was wont to say of his son : 

 ' He possesses all the low qualities of the maternal stock.' 



Goethe resembled his father physically, but psychologically he 

 resembled his mother by his strong instinct of self-preservation, 

 his dislike of all strong emotions, and his caustic and biting 

 speech. (For well-known anecdotes on this point, see his Life by 

 Henri Blaze, and Life by Lewes.) 



By his servant maid, whom he married, a woman of inferior 

 intellect, he had several children, one only of them a boy ; they all 

 died young. This son resembled Goethe in bodily vigour, but he 

 was of narrow mind like his mother, and Wieland used to call 

 him the son of the handmaiden (der Sohn der Magd). 



HEREDITY FROM FATHER TO DAUGHTER. 

 FATHER. DAUGHTER. 



Aristippus, the Cyrenaic philo- 

 sopher . ; '-. -' . . Areta 

 Theon, the geometrician . Hypatia 



Scipio Cornelia 



Caesar .... Julia (Pompey's wife) 



Cicero ,, * - . . Tullia 



Caligula . ' *. . ;,,*"-; Julia Drusilla 



Charlemagne . .* . His daughters (?) 



Alexander VI. . . . Lucretia Borgia 



Louis XI Anne de Beaujeu 



Louis XII. . . , . Claude de France 



TTTTT / Elizabeth 



Henry VIII iMary 



Henri II. . . Marguerite de Valois 



Henri IV. .... Henrietta of England 



Cromwell . His daughters 



Gustavus Adolphus . . Christina 



The Regent . . . '. His daughters 



Necker . . . Madame de Stael 



