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Excerpt from Genealogy of the Parke Family: Nine Generations From Arthur and Mary Parke, 1720-1920
It is an ordinary occurrence to hm the politician, who aspires to gain votes for himself and friends, to treat with ridicule the genealogist. He thinks it pleases the common people. The pedigrees of horses, dogs and fancy pigeons he admits have a cash value. And yet far more import ant for the student of human affairs are the pedigrees of men. By no possible ingenuity of legislation can a society made up of rufl'ians and boors be raised to the intellectual and moral level of a society made up of well-bred merchants and yeomen, parsons and lawyers. One might as well expect to see a dray horse win the Derby. 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.
