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Excerpt from A Good Name: A Sermon to the First Congregational Society in Lancaster, Mass;, October 22, 1871
Still let us be careful to give our children good names, happy names, names which they will not seek to exchange from shame to bear them. For though the very purpose of proper names would be lost were they to be frequently changed, and though it may be that neither good names do grace the bad, neither do evil names disgrace the good; the good having no virtue in them to make men better, nor the insignificant to make any worse, - yet plainly no man should be bound, nor woman either, by any ridiculous, perhaps profane, choice which others may have made for them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
