Memorial Address on the Late Marshall Pinckney Wilder: President of the New England Historic Genealogical Society (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

Excerpt from Memorial Address on the Late Marshall Pinckney Wilder: President of the New England Historic Genealogical Society

St. Paul advised Titus to avoid genealogies, not, however, those of men, but those of the aeons with which in complicated series of mystic generations the Gnostic theosophy had peopled the entire realm between God and man. As to human genealogies, inasmuch as Titus was a Christian pastor, St. Paul, I have no doubt, would have hidden him to study them, and would have told him that they were fully of as much worth to him in making him acquainted with the flock of Cretians under his charge as the pedigree of their sheep could be to the Shepherds on Mount Ida. The diagnosis of his parents and his grandparents is the prognosis, the horoscope of the child. We have many New England surnames which stand this day for traits bodily, mental and moral that belonged to those who bore the same names two hundred or two hundred and fifty years ago. In some cases the traits are intensified in their transmission; in others, where there has been intermarriage with families of strong peculiarities, they are slightly attenuated. In the children of the female members of one of these old families.

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