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The Law Of Primogeniture

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Day
16
Month
October
Year
1843
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Public Domain
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- Rev. H. H.Kellojrg-, when n England, attending the World's Convention, made an excursión to Warwick Castle. Afier describing the splendor of the estáte, he adds the remarks. 4I had often hnard tbat the law of primogenihire was tenaciousiy ndhered to by the younger metnbers of iJiefamiJies of 'he nnbiiily as wel! as hy the older. This had been tornean eriigmi. Why the yountrer members should be willm toielinquish to tne first born not only the title but the estates of the father, and gn forth to seek thcir fortune in the vnrious professionp, in the army and the nnvy, I c.iuld not perceive. But a viow of Waiwick Casrlosolved the enigma. Fnmiv pride b the motive which is 00 potenl. "f doubt not thal the younger branchps of r noble family wonld prefer beging their bread, to breaking up thefamilv estáte.But another mvstery has been to me unexplained till I found its solntion al.o here. - I could not tmrierstand why.the cotnoion peo pie, the rniddling classes are so well saiisfipd with lordly aristocracy. That thsy nre pleased, rich and poor, with the nobility, is a general trutli. And the reason I have here Been -i-it is national priHe. The poorest man in Enffland, vhile he begs employment or a pit tance in charity for the lovs of Heuven, to keep him, bis wife and children, from starvation, Fwells with pnde at Ihe montion of. a nobleman's nnme, who is squnndering his thoiisanrts in extravapance. When he passes by a nobleinan'fl pnlace or caFt his eye upon his equippaffp, he is pronij that Enlam! has a nobilily. Tlms pride n splendor and pride in rnps units in vírw of the dazzlmg pplendors oinobiüty in the prayrr - "be thou perpetual."

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