Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1915-06-03
YOUR FATHERS CHARACTER
AT THE TIME OF YOUR BIRTH
WILL BE YOURS ALSO


showing some very interesting and
unexpected results. We know that
the typical character of man under
/ goes variations at different periods of
long life, and that the son is likely
! to "take after" his father. But we
notice, often with surprise, that capa-
cities that were dominant in father,
which gave him sometimes great rep
utation, frequently are entirely lack
! ing in his son.
| Literary distinction, genius in any
particular direction, which distin-
! guished a certain father are quite
frequently absent in the case of his
son. In wondering at this we fall
to take note of the period in the
| fathers life when he made hs
mark" After patient investigation
science has come to the conclusion
that the son inherits from his father
only the qualities that were dominant
at the time of his birth.
These conclusions are set forth in
the book called Dynamic Evolution"
by Casper L. Redfeld, recently pub
lished by G. P. Putman's Sons, New
York and London. That author
writes:
Gas general proposition the man
between twenty and thirty is aggres-
sive, ambitious and conceited. He
would rule the world with a club.
This stage gradually merges into an
other so that as general proposition
the man between thirty and forty is
in the artistic stage of life. He is a
lover of poetry, music, painting and
sculpture.
''The artistic stage gradually
merges into the practical stage, which
may be generally defined as between
forty and fifty. The practical man
looks at the dollars and cents, wishes
to improve government, and has the
qualities of craftsmanship. AS he
passes beyond fifty into his older age
he becomes philosophic in his senti-
ments and moral in his maxims.
"These different qualities are sim
ply different forms of one and the
same mental energy within the man,
and they are spread out through his
life much as red rays, yellow rays,
blue rays and violet rays, all from the
same white light, are spread out by
the spectroscope,
That the son will partake of the
fathers type of mental energy that
was dominant at the time of the sons
birth is shown to be substantiated by
history and biography. This author
presents classified list of world cele-
brities together with the ages of their
respective fathers at the time of their
birth. For example Alexandra, Bon
aparte, Charlemagne, Grant, Hanni-
bal, Pompey and Roosevelt were all
born when their fathers were at the
age of less than thirty one, the age of
militarism and aggressiveness.
At the age of thirty-one to forty the
artistic age, their fathers presented to
the world such geniuses as Bach,
Beethoven, Goethe, Shakespeare, Rap
hazel, Carlyle and others of their stat
US. In the list of statesman these
were born when their fathers were
aged from forty-on to fifty, Bismarck,
Cato, Cromwell, Machiavelli, Webster.
Great names in philosophy born when
their fathers were over fifty-one are:
Aristotle, Bacon, Budha, Confucius,
Franklin, Moses and Solomon.
"While men born in one Of these di-
Visions" writes this author, may
show the type of character represent
ed in the next adjacent division, above
or below, the extremes do not meet.
No mild-mannered moralist of the
type represented by Budha and Con-
fucius is found in the son of man
less than thirty-one years of age, and
no aggressive military commander of
the type of Alexandra or Napoleon is
found in the son Of man more than
thirty-one years of age"
1t is remarked that Mohammed
whose father was twenty five, though
a moralist and prophet, would rule
the world by the sword; also that Gen
eral Robert E. Lee, whose father was
ffty-one, went to war because his NOR
al obligations forced him to do so and
not because he wanted to.
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