Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 104 December 1901 to May 1902 . OTHER PEOPLES CHILDREN. 119. world that is tobe. By as much ashis relationship toprospective individ-uals grows less im-portant to him, hisrelationship to thegeneral mass ofcoming men shouldgrow more impor-tant. No man, behe ever so great orever so strong, canbe sure that his line will not run out, orthat any kind of sceptre or any accumula-tion of wealth that he may hand downwill not pass out of his descendantshands. But he can be reasonably surethat all lives will not run out, and thatwhat he does on the earth that is worth
Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 104 December 1901 to May 1902 . OTHER PEOPLES CHILDREN. 119. world that is tobe. By as much ashis relationship toprospective individ-uals grows less im-portant to him, hisrelationship to thegeneral mass ofcoming men shouldgrow more impor-tant. No man, behe ever so great orever so strong, canbe sure that his line will not run out, orthat any kind of sceptre or any accumula-tion of wealth that he may hand downwill not pass out of his descendantshands. But he can be reasonably surethat all lives will not run out, and thatwhat he does on the earth that is worthdoing will last, and some one will fallheir to it. If he leaves any-thing worth inheriting, hewill have heirs. They maybe his children, but theyare almost as likely to beother peoples children. Hisimpulse, if he has it, toprovide for childhood andfor youth in general issound and natural, for,after all, it is the expres-sion of his desire that hisown shall come to theirown. But all this is a good way from other peoples children that interestus parents most violently are those thatour
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