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Author's final comments

Since the men and women mentioned in this book have had a profound impact on the world we live in, it is interesting to investigate some of the merits of this group as a whole.

The first is that the vast majority of these people come from Europe. We can find statistical classifications in Table No. (a). That table we find that the British have made the greatest contribution to human civilization more than any people in any nation or any region. It is interesting to note that of the 18 British personalities, there are no less than five who came from Scotland, and these five are at the forefront of the hundred. Since the Scots make up more than one percent of the world's population, this shows an amazing concentration of talents and achievements.

As you can see from Table (B), the personalities are not distributed in a uniform manner throughout the recorded history, and on the contrary, a good number of them flourished during the sixth and third centuries BC. Then there was a long-term stagnation period, however, starting from the fifteenth century AD, conditions improved Once again a kind of maturity and progress began, or at least change. And so the centuries that followed introduced an increasing number of names to this list. It is too early to judge whether the twentieth century will. Provides contributions and exploits as the number made by the nineteenth century. History books devote their pages to historical events, but, in my opinion, scientific progress has served much more to shape the world we live in. It is no coincidence that we find the number of scientists and inventors on this list much more than the number of political and military leaders.

Table C shows how many people in this book have worked in each of the different categories of human activity.

Since I have ranked a few religious leaders near the top in this list, Table C lists the number of people in each category and does not mention their position or number in the list. This regulation reduces the importance of religion in human affairs.

On the contrary, table (C) increases the value of historical events because the majority of political figures in this book are in the lowest rank in the list of 100.

It is interesting to mention that about 19 of the 100 personalities have never been married, because we do not have sufficient and accurate information about each person, it is possible that the number is slightly more than (19). And this number is surprisingly high, for a group of people whose lives were more prosperous and richer than the rest of the peoples, and even those who married did not all have offspring, at least 26 of them did not give birth, and there is a section that gave birth, but their offspring became extinct within a generation or two of time. Although we do not have accurate information about the existence of illegitimate children, it appears that only about 50 have existing offspring.

The characters in this book were highly intelligent and most of them. They were well cultured. Only seven of them were illiterate, and most of these illiterate people had a military reputation.

Finally, we should not fail to mention the western fact, which is that at least ten of the personalities were complaining of (gout) or (joint) disease, and this number exceeds the rate of disease accidents in the population, so the high number of gout patients among scientists aroused the interest of medical researchers.

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The author says that when he was in the process of printing his book, many friends and assistants submitted to him lists, names, and suggestions for different personalities from history. Others for one reason or another have been excluded.

This is a presentation of the aforementioned names. It would have been possible to enter the main list if the list had extended to two hundred. These names are according to the book, although the author says that the order of the characters in this list does not mean their sequence. According to importance and influence, this also applies to the ten names chosen from this list.