Lucius Manlius Boltwood

Author : George Sheldon
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ISBN 13 : 9781332021352
Total Pages : 20 pages
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Download or read book Lucius Manlius Boltwood (Classic Reprint) written by George Sheldon and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-27 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Lucius Manlius Boltwood "Americans of royal descent" is a high sounding phrase. As usually interpreted it refers to those who can trace a lineage to some one who at some time sat upon the English throne; it matters not whether the seat was obtained by invasion and rapine or by treason, revolt, and murder; whether the line comes direct through bloody tyrants or by side issues, - if only it has been labeled "royal." The term is a good one, however, and can be put to better use. It is a high honor to be able to trace one's line to the kings and queens who peacefully invaded New England, and, braving all odds, founded dynasties on the bleak sands of Cape Cod, amid the jagged rocks and tangled swamps of the Bay, or on the broad alluvial fields of the Connecticut Valley. From such an ancestry Lucius Manlius Boltwood could claim direct descent through more than fifty lines. In a brief paper like this it is impossible to give even the baldest record of such an heredity. These men walked in varying paths, each a sturdy, independent traveller, seeking breadth and freedom from oppressive religious thrall, afar from their native land. They were each in the van of that great wave of civil and theological betterment which carried them out of England, and which is still slowly, but surely spreading over the world. Whatever may be said of environment, no one can doubt that in such a case as this, heredity must be a potent factor in the development of Mr. Boltwood. Of such royal blood he had a right to be proud. Among these men, two crossed in the Mayflower, but nearly all left their homes during the reign of that apostle of untruth, Charles I. As all come-outers must be, each of these men was individual, - not one in a conglomerate mass, welded together by time and circumstance. In this condition of things we have no right to expect that, while they could and did unite against an oppressive theology at home, their religious ideas should be moulded in one and the same form here. As the natural outcome of such a condition, we find interminable divisions and quarrelling on points of belief, which are to us so small and meaningless as not to be discovered with the naked eye. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.