Again, the children of poor but large families, we are told, have slight or no chance to rise in the social order. Benjamin Franklin, however, one of the greatest men America has produced, was the youngest of seventeen children in a poor family; Lyman Beecher, a poor man, had eleven children, and every man and woman among them became famous; Theodore Schwann, the father of the cell doctrine and of all modern biology, was one of thirteen poor children; John Mueller, one of the greatest of modern scientists, and the Father of German medicine, was one of five children of a very poor family; Emerson was one of five sons, so was Farragut; John Wesley the founder of Methodism, was the eighteenth child of his parents; Ignatius Loyola was the eighth; Saint Catherine of Sienna, among the greatest women intellectually and morally that Europe ever produced, was the twenty-fourth child of her parents. This list can be extended indefinitely from the biographical dictionaries. Every enormous fortune made in America was built up originally by a man who arose from the depths--Rockefeller, Carnegie, Vanderbilt, Astor, Ryan, Havemeyer, Schwab, Ford, Gould, and so on. Poverty is a necessary foundation for a great fortune. The great soldiers of the world almost without exception rose from the ranks of poverty--Napoleon, Washington, Sheridan, Grant, Sherman, Pershing, De Lacy in Russia, Prim in Spain, O'Higgins in Chili, Stonewall Jackson, and others. The powerful Dukes of Tetuan in Spain came from an Irish adventurer, the fifth of eight sons of a poor man. Big families make for strength of character in the struggle for existence; the solitary child in a family is pampered, spoiled.