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HEREDITABY TRANSMISSION OP QUALITIES. 47
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We While Found Travellin Ourselve G In S...
pain from , within and all More degradation perfect that exam coro les . es of from this order without were and never not
given than . daring the Reign of Terror p "b y the members of the old French aristocracy . For the most part without any
supporting sense of inward goodness , yet never "betraying- the blank despair or mortal anguish of the soul—noblesse
obligeblood will tell—so with gay smile and careless jest on the lip , the-best born men and women of old France rode forward into
the mists of death . A habit of loyal and unswerving obedience is perfectly
consistent with and indeed indispensable to a capacity for gentl command e birth , and . So is th a at lesson the thoroug most h- easil bred y horse taught ans to wers those to the of
punishment whi submit p and to spur and ; and , are while proud our the well of half a -born system -bred lads shuts of at disci up Eton line altogether , Harrow which would , under & c ,
be upset in , half-a-day in any of our middle p -class , schools or commercial academies . " The high-bred ones take their .
sagacious punishment novelists with unruffled and the brow remark , " says is as one comprehensive of our most as
true . From these considerations , we can judge how much truth is embodied in the common sayingthat _" it takes three
generations to make a gentleman . " Exceptions , of course there are , where a natural gentleness , courtesy , and courage are born to
the general man these , which qualities never are appeared gained by in inheritance his progenitors , training ; but , and in
the perpetual example of daily life . In speaking of honourable birth , we of course do not allude of to ancient what is and known unblemished as noble ,
i descent . e ., titled cherishes birth . his A good peasant name more highly than his life , exactlas the untitled gentlemanwith similar cause for pride
will resent y an insult more than , an injury ; and no greater , misfortune can afflict a nationthan to be cursed by a rich and
titled classwhose birth and , breeding are alike base and defective . , At this point of our subject we are compelled to
take into account the vast variety of disturbing causes and secondary influences , which either interfere with , or wholly
counteract the results which more or less definitely ought to follow certain conditions , and we are obliged to admit that there are few cases where the possession of the best and most
ancient names among men and women is a guarantee for corresponding qualities presenting anything like the value and
authenticity of a stable pedigree . The reason of this we will endeavour to showas also the remedies provided by nature
against the utter degeneracy , of the race , which may be
metaphorically characterized as therapeutic and surgical .
Hereditaby Transmission Op Qualities. 47
HEREDITABY TRANSMISSION OP QUALITIES . 47
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), March 1, 1864, page 47, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01031864/page/47/
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