Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1911-02-01
A STUDY OF HEREDITY
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en- led disreputable lives; 76 OF this
family were convicts, Z Of whom
were sentenced for murder; 106 of the
700 were illegitimate. During seventy:
five years this family rolled up bill
of costs in almshouses, prisons, Ja1ls,
houses of correction, amounting to
about 81, $50, 900.
"A study of posterity in ten other
families revealed the fact that of fif-
ty-seven children only ten showed
normal condition. Throwing children
into the Ganges,' says one. seems
harmless pastime compared to
transmitting such depravity to chill
dren.' Truly there is an hereditary
calling and it is not simply "a state
of mind, concept of the magma
ton.
"Our study teaches US that by the
born drunkard is meant the inebriate,
not every drunkard is inebriate or dis
eased the habit may be contracted
rather than inherited. The treatment
is usually too late. AS DIR. Holmes
says the doctor should have been
called 100 years earlier. However to
say of any one born So does not
settle it; the verdict may be changed
and nations as we'll as individuals may
be born anew. Disease is against
nature and though it abounds because
in part of the sins and follies of an
cestors, very much in the long fam lily
train may be diverted. There are
| infinite possibilities for finite lives.
| Some of these have been indicated in
our previous studies on education, en-
vironment, training, suggestion. We
cannot altogether escape our Inherit
ance or change it but we may help
clear the way for others.
1.-The diseases more commonly trans
mitted are those involving brain and
nerve trouble, the heart and circula-
ton being especially affected.
The hereditary outlook is ominous
in the face of such figures as these
| Of the 1000, 900 young men in Anne RI
ca over 100000 are outside the
church 81 out of 100 criminals are
young men; 81 out of 100 fail to in
terest themselves in the Kingdom of
Righteousness.
"Some one watching in Cincinnati
noticed that into single saloon in
one hour entered 252 men, of whom
all but Is were young men. In Lon
| don it was noted that during three
hours 200 saloons were visited by 48,
900 men, 10000 women and 1000 boys.
LAS to young men, result has been
a steady increase of the death rate
from IA to rs years of age; evil hab-
it's report in themselves in deteriorat-
ed bodies the physical overtops the
mental and spiritual. and darkness
and death ensue.
GAS a matter of fact, the ills that
vitiate human life, such as disease,
irritability, viciousness, are due in
the main to errors that might have
been avoided; they are the relics OF
an uncontrolled past The soul flies
low because of these enemies of the
flesh warning against the spirit, and
overcoming where the resistance is
least. These, and more, are among
the burdens of heredity.
ION the other hand there is the inner
tied instinct for good, a dover Of
blood healthy and pure. coursing rrir
every artery and vein, and electric
with the highest life. This justifies
a pride of birth above that called roy
al, more precious than rubies.
"Flaxman, the great Inner, had {
mother so desirious of creating the
U0duIllul IIldG size EdIlSOu TOuIu u6l
in the ante-natal period the most ex
quisite studies of Greek art in ord el
that her imagination might b,
stepped in these beautiful forms.
How to turn burdens into blessings
is matter for the state to take il
hand. The Spartans understood this
they permitted no marriage the prob
able consequence of which would be
feeble progeny.
"Aristotle said of the cities O.
Greece, that when the custom was TO
!, young people to marry before maturi
; ty, the children were puny and o
small stature; they were dwarfe
mentally and spiritually, shortlivet
and especially lacking in courage.
"'The fate of nations said Lor
, Beacons6eld, will depend ultimatel
upon the strength and health of tn
population laws should be passed t
secure this, and some day they viii
? be-
, "We have just touched upon thi
great theme-Heredity. If we hav
learned anything it is that inherite
{ character counts. Paul writing t
Timothy thanked God for his ow
t son in the faith, and especially h
said,
: "'When I call to remembrance tn
: unfeigned faith that is in thee, whic
{ dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois
, and thy mother Eunice; and l ar
J persuaded that in thee Also
poo6o in hond to opv Iociro6 norf 4,