Show ANCESTOR WORSHIP honoring the parents or other worthy forbears is most commendable but the extremes to which some people carry their pride of ancestry is somewhat amusing we see many worthless offspring from high class parentage while on the other hand many persons born in obscurity have made notable successes in life the divine right of kings was founded on ancestry usually beginning with some political or military upstart the american was founded on the wealth of shrewd uncouth traders and schemers of the early days while the fetish of ancestry is still worshipped wor shipped by many it is becoming out of date and nowadays a man must amount to something in his own right if he would be held in high esteem As a recent writer has well said Human itys sense of justice would be outraged if descendents of a criminal justly hanged say three hundred years ago should still lie under the inaam infamy y of that ancestor why then should glory be attached to the worthless descendant of a beroe |