... gives the readers of the journal the sort of words and the sort of thoughts they are used to so, on a larger scale, the writers of an age, without thinking of it, give to the readers of the age ... which the child in blood possesses of becoming one day the head of a family himself. The flocks and herds of the children are the flocks and herds of the father, and the possessions of the parent, ... bears the trace of the laws of their fathers;' but the ancient nations came into no such inheritance; they were the descendants of people who did what was right in their own eyes; they...