A Wonder Of Precocity

Christian Hemecker was born at Lbeck on the 6th of February, 1721. When only 10 months oíd, he could repeat every word spoken to him. At 12 months of age he had memorized all the principal events mentioned in the Pentateuch. Before he had finished his second year of existence he had learned all the historieal parts of both the Old and the New TeStainent. At the age of 3 he could reply correctly to all questions put to hini regarding universal history and geography, and in the same year he learned to speak both Latín and French. In his fouïth year he employed his time in studying religions, especially the history of the Christian church. He was not only able to glibly repeat all thut he had read, but was also able to reason with considerable of judgment and to ffive his own opinión of things in general, ïhe king of Denmark wished to éee this vvonderful child, so he was taken to Copenhagen. After his return to Lubeck he learned to write, and was beginning on the study of inusic and mathematica, but his constitution being very weak, he took down and died on June 27, 172rf, aged 4 years, 4 months and 21 days. What a wonderful record for such a short