The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-12-03


err Of the Carlovingian dynasty. aud lastly,
hariemange founder Of the Germanic
Empire. An four were OF the highest rank
as leaders Of men.
Another extraordinary family was the
Scipos, in the following order: Cornelius
Scipo who drove the Carthagenians out
of Corsica ana Sardinia; his son =. Cor
ncius Scipio, a great general against the
Carthagenans but defeated by Hannibal.
his son Scipio Africanus Major who COM
manded the Roman armies in Spain al the
age of "A and finally conquered Hannibal.
He was the GREATEST man OF his age and
the greatest of Rome except Julius Caesar;
his son Z. Cornelius Scipo Africans. OF
weak body, but said by Cicero TO equal his
father in greatness of mind and to surpass
him In learning.
Taking the eminent sons OF a group OF
eminent commanders. Galtou found that
they had 81 eminent sons, while the emf
nent sons of a similar group of scientists
numbered 60, and of poets SO.
l do not see any reason why Goethe
should not have had great son had his
life been properly ordered, but he was
poet, one of those geniuses whose passions
run away with them.
There are also artists who have be-
queathed good health as well as good abil-
tiles to their sons, Francis Miers. for in
stance the noted miniature portrait paint
er, had a son scarcely his inferior
Among the poets whose lives help sus-
tain the theory of heredity was Aeschylus,
the Greek tragediau. whose two sons
founded a school Of tragic poetry which
lasted 1875 years. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
had a son and daughter who inherited in
remarkable. degree the intellectual
characteristics of their father.
Among the musicians Hlllers son was a
nrst-rate violinist. but died while achiev-
ing a great reputation. Mozarts son,
lat pts fua. 81
James Watt had a son. Gregory, a noted
geologist. who died aged q. and another
! son, James, also a man OF great ability
who became a recluse George Stephen
son, the father OF railroads had a son,
Robert, who was che foremost engineer Of
his day. Linnaeus, the great botanist had
a son Charles. who achieved distinction.
Sir John Herschel, one of the foremost
| philosophers of the day. and an astrono-
mer, was a son of Sir William Herschel.
| John Galileos son, Nicen2o, was the first
| who applied to clockwork his fathers IN
venuon of the pendulum. The illustrlous
! Charles Darwin, author of THE Origin of
! Species" was a grandson of the noted
scientific writer, Erasmus Darwin, and
| his own son was a second wrangler at
| Cambridge.
Among the literary people Mrs. Francis
Trollope the novelist has two sons, An
| thony, the noted novelist, and Thomas
| Adolphus, a miscellaneous writer. James
Mil, the historian of India was father
of John Stuart Mil. Seneca, the great
! Roman philosopher, was son of Marcus
| Annaeus Seneca, an author and rhetori-
elan whose memory was SO prodigious
that he could repeat 1000 words In the
order heard. Nine de Stael one OF the
most famous writer's Of her day, was a
daughter of NeclSor, the celebrated French
statesman. Hevetius the famous ma
terialistic philosopher d7l5-177), was son
| of John Claude Adrian, an eminent ply
sician.
The Sidney family was derived from Sir
| William Sidney, knight and soldier whose
son, Sir Henry, married Mary Dudley,
| daughter of the Earl of Warwick, the most
powerful subject Of his time. Sir Henry
achieved great distinction as Lord Deputy
of Ireland His son was Sir Philip Sid
ney courtier, soldier. author OF AREA
dla" and q man of rare genius Another
son became Earl of Leicester and was a
noted man. The Sidney genius filtered
through Lucy Sidney, daughter Of Sir
Henry into the Montagu family produce
| ing a succession of brilliant men and Wo-
men. These included Samuel Pepys. au-
thor OF ellis Diary" Richard Pepye
| Chief Justice OF Ireland; James Montagu
| Bishop of Bath; Anne Montagu, Com
pendulum OF WISDOM" Frederick Lord
| North, Premier TO George ILL., Sir Ed
ward Montagu. the famous Lord High
AuHFal anu htol N>atl u f'dHuWiShs NA7
thur, the first Earl of Essex, and his bro
Their Henry, first Baron Capel, both Lord
| Lieutenants of Ireland; the first Earl OF
Halifax, statesman, the first Duke OF
Manchester, Premier of England in 1901;
Charles Hatton Montagu; "the incompar-
able" and many others
In the ranks of British statesmen the
two Walpoles, the two Pitts, the two Ce-
ellis and the Duke of Wellington, with his
father and brother, were all famous men.
France produced the two Colberts and tho
two Richelieus Mirabeau had a famous
father, and the Dues Of Guise were great
in three generations and conspicuous in the
fourth.