(Vermilion) A = --+ (Gamboge) B | R Paternal = Grand- (Sage-gr.) C | S father ---+ = --+ | (Prus. bl.) D | = --+ (Carmine) E | | (Verm. + = --+ | | Gamb. + (Emerald) F | T Paternal -+ | Sage-gr. + = Grand- | Pruss. Bl. + (Violet) G | U mother | Carm. + = --+ | Emerald + (Orange) H Father Violet + = SELF Orange + (Brown) I Mother Br. + = --+ | Lav. + (Lavender) K | V Maternal | Slate + = Grand- | Cob. + (Slate) L | X father ---+ | Verd. + = --+ | | Lemon + (Cobalt) M | | Black + = --+ White.) (Verdegris) N | = --+ | (Lemon) O | Y Maternal -+ = Grand- (Black) P | Z mother = --+ (White) Q ] Every one of my readers, every human being, nay, every beast, and bird, and fish, and reptile, represents the 16 ancestors of four generations, that means 32 independent streams of blood in the fifth generation, and 1004 currents in the tenth generation, and 32,128 rivulets of distinct blood in the fifteenth generation, and 1,028,096, if we go back to the twentieth generation. Take thirty years as a generation, then, in the reign of Henry III., there were over a million independent individuals, walking, talking, eating, marrying, whose united blood was to be, in 1889, blended in your veins. Why, that ogre of a sailor in the Bab Ballads, who represented a whole ship's crew, because, when shipwrecked, he had eaten them, is nothing to you. The whole population of London, of Middlesex, was not a million, then. You represent a large county--Yorkshire, for instance. Our arteries are very sluices, through which an incredible amount of confluent rills unite to rush, the drainage of the whole social country-side.