...has always, in some measure, recognised the laws of heredity. In the ancient Mosaic law we read : " The sins of the fathers shall be visited upon the children unto the third and fourth generation." In the sacred laws of Manu we find : " A woman always brings into the world a son...

...sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father." (Ezek. xviii. 19, 20.) " The sins of the fathers shall be visited upon the children unto the third and fourth generation :" so said the lawgiver Moses, with one object in view ; and so says the physician,...

...perhaps, was there a more striking exemplification of that fearful menace in the third commandment — " The sins of the fathers shall be visited upon the children unto the third and fourth generation." The talents of the marquis were great, but, untrained and undisciplined, they exhibited...

...tenth generation shall he not enter into the congregation of the Lord. In the decalogue it is said the sins of the fathers shall be visited upon the children unto the third and fourth generation, but here the penalty of a crime is stretched over ten generations ! Why should God...

...a law of nature, as names descend by a law of custom. God still ordains that the bodily iniquities of the fathers shall be visited upon the children unto the third and fourth generation. When we look backward and see how the numbers of our ancestors is doubled at each...

...a law of nature, as names descend by a law of custom. God still ordains that the bodily iniquities of the fathers shall be visited upon the children unto the third and fourth generation. When we look backward and see how the numbers of our ancestors are doubled at each...

...muttered inaudibly — " The curse of the ruined girl has fallen, and not her curse only. Even so ! ' the sins of the fathers shall be visited upon the children unto the third and fourth generation !' " " Sir," said the physician, who deeply pitied the father's disappointment, "...

...of the God of the Hebrews, written on the sacred tablets of Moses, kept in their holy Ark, reads, " The sins of the fathers shall be visited upon the children unto the third and fourth' generation of those who hate me." This virtuous prince is therefore sacrificed for the guilt...

...children, and the consequence of such a life is also entailed upon their offspring. " The iniquity of the fathers shall be visited upon the children unto the third and fourth generation." If the parent " sow, to the flesh," the child, with him, " shall of the flesh reap...

...sowing the seeds of misery and misfortune ; and hence may be seen the wisdom of God's declaration, .'The sins of the fathers shall be visited upon the children unto the third and fourth generation." In the days of Abraham, God admonished and I directed man, by outward observance...