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Synopsis
Excerpt from Certain Comeoverers, Vol. 1
At the present lustrum of your life you are, and should be, supremely indifferent to your ances tors. They are dead and gone and that's an end on 't. Your utmost powers of receptivity are properly absorbed by vital considerations. 'dead uns are nit as you would put it. In presenting you the following notes I ask not that you con sciously attempt to change your present attitude. Inevitably there will come a time when these records of your forebears will have for you at least a passing interest. To you at that time I dedicate them. I hope, indeed, the time will never come when the pulse of glorious life will beat so slowly that you can afford to devote it to genea logical study. A lonely and a sterile life alone can find sufficient satisfaction in the dry-as-dust occupation of delving into dreary records to find a name, a mere name, the date when the name was born and died, the date when the name married another name, and the dates of all the other names that went before and came after.
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