Records of the Dorland Family in America Embracing the Principal Branches, Dorland, Dorlon, Dorlan Durland, Durling in the United States and Canada (Classic Reprint)
Description:... Excerpt from Records of the Dorland Family in America Embracing the Principal Branches, Dorland, Dorlon, Dorlan Durland, Durling in the United States and Canada In a rational consideration of family history one need not go to the length of transplanting here the ancestor-worship of the Chinese, or to the depth of rummaging the tombs of the dead for a decoration wherewith to distinguish the living. On the other hand, genealogies are surely not idle or unprofitable if, in linking us with the past, even though a dead past, they serve to reanimate it with such color of life as enables us the better to interpret the present and anticipate the future. The simple duty apparent and welcome to Open minds and uncorrupted hearts is to know who and what our ancestors were, in actual life, for filial reasons and for the sake of the knowledge itself, if not for our own sake. From a discriminating study one must arrive at the conviction that, after all, social radiance can in reality emanate only from one's own light, and not from the reflected beams of an ancestor.
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