An Address to the Members of the New England Historic Genealogical Society
An Address to the Members of the New England Historic Genealogical Society
William Jenks
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' My son, ' said a judicious nobleman of England, of high stand- ing, to his heir who had now arrived at man's estate, ' I wish you to marry. And I wish you not to marry beneath your rank ; but I have prepared lists of families of that rank, and this, ' handing him one, ' contains the names of such as are subject to hereditary insanity — the other, those who inherit the king's evil, or scrofula — I beg you avoid them both. ' Who is there, now, that is at all conversant with human woes arising f...rom a feeble, broken constitution, afflicted with chronic diseases — lacerated with pain, and weary with suffering, or depressed with the anticipations of it — who would not prefer the ' mens sana in corpore sano ' — a sound mind in a sound body, to heaps of yellow dust ? We require pedigrees of horses — we ii:ispect, with great care, those of cattle — to ascertain the genuineness of their descent ; and the keen-sighted, experienced breeders of them acquire with the farmer, the sportsman, the independent gentleman, an almost enviable fame — but, is it not to be feared, that, in multitudes of instances, as in the old countries of Europe, the pecuniary consid- eration outweighs immeasurably that which is merely physiolog- ical !
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