This enduring tendency is foreshadowed in the following extracts: "August 2, 1843 .-- I have been thinking much of late about the very great influence which nationality and the family progenitors have upon character.

Men talk of universality, impartiality, many-sidedness, free judgment, unbiased opinion, and so on, when in reality their national and family dispositions are the centre and ground of their being, and hence of their opinions.

They appear to be most themselves when they show these traits of character.

They are most natural and earnest and at home when they speak from this link which binds them to the past.

Then their hearts are opened, and they speak with a glow of eloquence and a peculiar unction which touch the same chord in the breasts of those who hear them.