...nine cases out of ten the child comes into the world impregnated with ancestral diseases. The sins of the fathers are visited upon the children to the third and fourth generation [by inheritance]. To eradicate these seeds of iniquity and death is the work of medical education ; and where the child...

...his own quota of selfishness to swell the general stock. It accumulates from age to age. The sins of the fathers are visited upon the children, to the third and fourth generation. The idolatrous habit, the sensual habit, goes on propagating itself, so that the cry, .35tas...

...his own quota of selfishness to swell the general stock. It accumulates from age to age. The sins of the fathers are visited upon the children, to the third and fourth generation. The idolatrous habit, the sensual habit, goes on propagating itself, so that the cry, .(Etas...

...Dayton Ohio, ^ead before the April Session of the Montgomery Medical Society, 1855. " The iniquities of the fathers are visited upon the children, to the third and fourth gcue ration."—Etodua. "The way of the tranfgressor • hard."—Proverbs. The introduction of animal...

...ended with the wrong-doer ; but it is well known to physiologists and divines, that the gross sins of the fathers are visited upon the children to the third and fourth generation. We are born, we die, and our end depends upon our origin. Is it then a wonder most men...

...in a divinely ordered universe, unless we might call that provision an accident by which the sins of the fathers are visited upon the children to the third and fourth generation. Sad and terrible law it seems, yet it is the very law fitted to awaken men of any feeling,...

...and its place is near to their top. Remember how it is written here, that, while the iniquities of the fathers are visited upon the children to the third and fourth generations among the haters of God, the mercy and truth of God flow on in a widening stream to the...

...Descent. Our people are not ignorant of the existence of a natural law, in virtue of which the sins of the fathers are visited upon the children to the third and fourth generation, but not many consider that the consequences of violating the law are inevitable. The individuality...

...great-grandparents, and probably by their progenitors of earlier generations. This is how the sins of the fathers are visited upon the children to the third and fourth generation. We cannot set up schools and colleges for mothers ; and if we could, who would be the professors...

...This, it strikes me, is an illustration of the declaration of the Decalogue, that the iniquities of the fathers are visited upon the children to the third and fourth generations. Another result of intemperance that I have noticed is its effect upon the duration of...