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| 1054299 | To plant a family! This idea is at the bottom of most of the wrong and mischief which men do. The truth is, that, once in every half century, at longest, a family should be merged into the great, obscure mass of humanity, and forget all about its ancestors. | ancestors assimilation family family-line heritage | Nathaniel Hawthorne | |
| 640ecdb | Civilization is always threatened from below, by patterns of belief and emotion that may once have been useful to our ancestors, but that are useful no longer. | ancestors belief below civilization emotion pattern patterns threaten threatened use useful | Roger Scruton |