THOUGHT FOR THE DAY.
A man's destiny stands not in the future but iii the past. That, rightly considered, it, the most vital of all vital facts. Every child thus has a rikbt to chooso his own ancestors. Naturally ho can only do this vicariously, through his parents. It is the most serious aria sacred duty of tho future father to choose one half of the ancestral ana horerlitarr character' of his r vture child; it is the most serious and sacred duty of the future mother to, make' a similarIn choosing each other they, have between them chosen the wholo ancestry of their child. Thov have determined the stars that will rule his fate. ■~ . . —Havelock Ellis.
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Press, Volume L, Issue 14975, 23 May 1914, Page 11
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117THOUGHT FOR THE DAY. Press, Volume L, Issue 14975, 23 May 1914, Page 11
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