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the fault from his ancestral stock which has some- 

 how and sometime acquired it, so it is not unreason- 

 able, perhaps yet justifiable, to think that the 

 errors and evil doings of the fathers are visited 

 upon the natures of the children, and that the 

 good man, continuing with his seed, leaves an 

 organic inheritance to his children's children by 

 his own welldoings. 



