ROYAL BLOOD IN EVERYBODY'S VEINS.
Every man had two parents, four grandparents, eight great-grandparents, sixteen great-great-grandparents, thirty-two great-great-great-grand parents, &c. Now, if we F reckon twenty-five years ib a generation, and carry on the same calculation to the time of William the Conqueror, it will be found that each living person must have jhad at that time even the enormous number i jof 35,000,000 of ancestors. Hhen; suppose |. we make the usual allowance for the inter- ;': marrying of families in a genealogical line, :- and for the same person being ht.many of "'1 the intersections of the family tree, 'Still '> there will remain a number at that period % more than sufficient to cover the whole of m the Norman and Anglo-Saxon races. What, E- therefore, must have been pious, princely, ||'. kingly, or aristocratic, stands side by side H in line with the most ignoble, plebian, or & democratic. Each man of the present day re. may be certain of having had, not only K barons and 'squires, but even crowned H heads, dukes, princes, or bishops, or reK pownedgenerals, barristers, physicians, &©., E Ijltteag^nis ancestors.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume III, 12 March 1891, Page 4
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182ROYAL BLOOD IN EVERYBODY'S VEINS. Manawatu Herald, Volume III, 12 March 1891, Page 4
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