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serious than anything else, whether he wills it so or not, in 

 deciding his own fate, in forming his own habits, he often 

 decides the habits and settles the fate of his descendants for 

 generations yet to come. 



The next chapter deals with one of these habits a habit 

 which is able to affect the welfare of future generations, and 

 for this reason cannot be ignored by such a book as this. 



