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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. 



Aristippus, the Cyrenaic philo- 

 sopher .... 

 Theon, the geometrician . 

 Scipio . . . . . 

 Caesar . . 

 Cicero . . . 



Caligula . 



Charlemagne .... 

 Alexander VI. , . . 

 Louis XI ..... 

 Louis XII ..... 



Henry VIII. . . . 



Henri II. . . . 



Henri IV. . . . . 

 Cromwell . . . , 



Gustavus Adolphus . . 



The Regent . . 

 Necker . 



DAUGHTER. 



Areta 



Hypatia 



Cornelia 



Julia (Pompey's wife) 



Tullia 



Julia Drusilla 



His daughters (?) 



Lucretia Borgia 



Anne de Beaujeu 



Claude de France 



Marguerite de Valois 

 Henrietta of England 

 His daughters 

 Christina 

 His daughters 

 Madame de Stael 



