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the House of Orleans to marriages which brought fresh blood 
into the family; whereas the alliances of the elder branch of 
ey House of France wene of the nature, known to stock raisers 
“ breedings-in-and-in.’ 
pe any case it would be worth while to trace carefully—so 
far as possible—the origin of the characteristics of the French, 
Spanish and Neapolitan Bourbons, as compared with those of 
the House of Orleans: the three former bigoted, unprogressive, 
unable to assimilate the advanced ideas of their age; having 
after the French Revolution “learned nothing and forgot- 
ten nothing,” and the House of Orleans descended from the 
younger brother of Louis XIV, abreast of all the ideas of 
their time, highly intelligent, cultivated and progressive. In 
the house of Orleans we are watching a rising family; in the 
other branches of Bourbons, families mentally and morally 
sinking. 
Another interesting branch of enquiry, would be to trace 
the origin of the insanity in the Danish, Bavarian and Belgian 
royal families. The curious coincidence between the form of 
insanity which characterized the good Duke of Celle in the 
sixteenth century, and that from which his descendant, George 
IIl, suffered two hundred years later, I have already alluded 
to. But why did the taint of insanity remain latent for so 
many years, and can some marriage be traced which caused 
its recrudescence? I think it might be found in the family of 
the Princess of Wales, mother of George III; but I have no 
means here of tracing the lineage of that princess. 
But having started this train of enquiry with the intention 
of cursing the whole group of Neuroses, as productive of in- 
2Phillippe brother of Louis XIV married Charlotte — of Bavaria; one of 
the "e M minded and ia Rea pararem of her 
l daughter of TPAR de Montespan’s; and had 
his ears RR Do by his mother whee she heard of the engagement. Louis- 
Puppe -Joseph 1747—1793, married the only daughter of the Duc de Penthievre, 
mother of the late Comte de Paris was a Princess of Meckle $ 
On the other hand Louis XIV, elder brother of Philippe, first k of Orleans, 
married the only daughter of Philip IV of Spain; Louis XVI Marie 
Antoinette of the Austrian House of Hapsburgs, and the direct male line became 
extinct with the intensely narrow and bigoted Comte de Chambord, whose mother 
‘belonged to the Neapolitan branch of the Bourbons, 
