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Identifier: journalofamerica00mill (find matches)
Title: The journal of American history
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Miller, Francis Trevelyan, 1877-1959
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Americana Antiques
Publisher: New Haven, Conn. : Associated Publishers of American Records
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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ingman and woman stands today as the probable beginning of a race as mightyas this, which is to spring from his or her being. Genealogy today is largely a social factor in America. Even on thisplane it is the most wholesome and the most inspiring of social customs. Ashas been stated before in these pages, genealogical knowledge is moralstrength. The man who feels the responsibility of upholding the honorablerecord of his family for generations will make a good citizen. To such aman there can be no deeper humiliation than that he is the weakest andthe most ignoble of generations of strong forbears, and that he has stoopedto dishonor that which has been held sacred by his own blood for centuriesand for which many of his kin would have sacrificed their lives—honor.This is the philosophy and the science of genealogy—every man taking goodcare to contribute some good quality of character to the name with whichhe is intrusted—a true American aristocracy on principles of pure democracy.
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