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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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rfected in them.He guards against the intermingling of strains that are unknown to him.In fact, he has so far perfected the science of heredity that he can controlthe color, physical form, and characteristics of his animals. Man ignoresthis most subtle power of heredity only in his own offspring. In this greatestand most responsible duty known to mankind—fatherhood and motherhood—he brings into the world souls that know not, and have no control what-ever over, the endowments of heredity which have been thrust upon themwithout reason or intent. The weakest point in civilization today is itspromiscuous marriage and loose marriage bonds, as proved both by itsoffspring and its divorce courts. It is as positive as time itself that futurecivilizations will require by law examinations into heredity before grantingthe privileges of entering into the serious and sacred matrimonial relations—and the basis for these examinations will be a perfected system of genealogi-cal investigations. m
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£, I m An Jb (gpuralogy as a ^oriologtral Sartor in American ffiift The tremendous responsibility of the single individual, both to himselfand to posterity, is now being forcibly demonstrated by Professor ElishaLoomis, Ph. D., of Cleveland, Ohio, who is preparing the investigationsinto the Loomis foundations in England and America. Dr. Loomis is oneof the ablest mathematicians in this country, and he has just completed amathematical calculation of the relative importance of the individual to thestate as a factor in the building of the Nation. Dr. Loomis scholarlygenealogical work is now being published by The Associated Publishersof American Records (the publishers of The Journal of American His-tory), and from the manuscript this interesting computation is made:Every human being has necessarily had two parents, four grandparents,eight great-grandparents, and so on until ones ancestors for ten generationsare apparently 512; fifteen generations, over 16,000; twenty-five generations,ov

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