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And this girl has it this thing I'm trying to express. She's modern to her finger tips, and yet she's extraordinarily American in spite of her modernity, she embodies in some queer way our tradition. She loves our old houses at Silliston they make her feel at home that's her own expression." "Did she say that?" "Exactly. And I know she's of New England ancestry, she told me so.
Kay gets them all winging." "Even so, he will not so far forget his ancestral pride as to admit it, or even give the slightest intimation of it." "He is a prideful sort of chap. I noticed that. Still, he's not a prig." "He has pride of race, John. Pride of ancestry, pride of tradition, pride of an ancient, undisputed leadership in his own community.
These are a few of the elements which made the city strange and gave it the glamour of romance which has so strongly attracted such men as Stevenson, Frank Norris and Kipling. This life of the floating population lay apart from the regular life of the city, which was distinctive in itself. The Californian is the second generation of a picked and mixed ancestry.
And the unity of the plan in the vertebrata would be due, not to absolute unity of ancestry, but to unity of external conditions at a particular epoch in the descent of life. Hence it follows that the separation of animals into orders and genera and even into species took place, if not for the most part yet very largely, at a very early period in the history of organic evolution.
They at least are real and not the logical deductions of reason; yet their very reality and familiarity render us blind to the deeper meaning revealed to us only when science places the facts in intelligible order. And now, in the third place, we may look to nature for fossil evidence regarding the ancestry of our species.
As a matter of fact, we find no radical differences between any of the peoples discussed; despite evident minor variations, the tribes of northwestern Luzon approach a common type, and this type appears not to be far removed from the dominant element in southern China, Indo-China, and Malaysia generally, a fact which probably can be attributed to a common ancestry in times far past.
Although in her distant ancestry Mary may justly be considered as of an illustrious descent, yet at the period of the incarnation, this family was in a very reduced state: the genealogical tree of David was cut down to its very roots, when the ancient prediction was accomplished respecting that great Personage who is represented "as a slender twig shooting out from the trunk of an old tree, cut down, lopped to the very root, and decayed; which tender plant, so weak in appearance, should nevertheless become fruitful and prosper."
His fathers and grandfathers sang it in their old thatched cabins and, farther back, the warriors and bards of his past ancestry breathed the same tones and, farther back still, the wind swept its first suggestions through the old oaks of the early solitudes. "Is it this, I wonder, this far-reaching into the past, which gives such moving power to the tones of an old Welsh hymn?"
She grew resentful that their true worth should not be acclaimed by the world. In the sight of heaven they were pure-breds; so why should they suffer through the oversight of a herd boss that hadn't anywhere near such distinguished ancestry? And so on, as the lady says. We left the lane at last and were on the county road, but headed away from the Arrowhead and food.
Words have now an ancestry; and the ancestry of words, as of men, is often a very noble possession, making them capable of great things, because those from whom they are descended have done great things before them; but this would deface their scutcheon, and bring them all to the same ignoble level.
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