40 Some Eminent Men 



extra education before reproducing. But Dar- 

 win does not carry off all of the glory. Alfred 

 Russell Wallace did something. Wallace was 

 born when his father was 52, and the father was 

 born when the grandfather was 46. Here is 

 another 98 years in two generations to match 

 that of Gustavus Adolphus. What man born 

 within 44 years of the birth of his grandfather 

 is the equal of Wallace? 



John and Charles Wesley were the founders 

 of Methodism. There can be no doubt about the 

 intellectual superiority of these men. They were 

 the sons of the Rev. Samuel Wesley who was 40 

 and 43 years of age respectively when his famous 

 sons were born. Now it is quite evident that the 

 Rev. Samuel must have acquired a good deal of 

 education before his sons were conceived. It 

 also happens that the mother of John and Charles 

 was Susanna, the twenty-fifth and youngest child 

 of Dr. Samuel Annesley, a vicar. There can be 

 no doubt but Dr. Sam had acquired a good deal 

 of education before his twenty-fifth child was 

 conceived. And where would Methodism be if 

 birth control had got in its deadly work in the 

 families of these two pious Samuels? 



