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Are you one of those people who like to putter away valuable time figuring out just how you stand as to Ancestors? The fact is, your Ancestors were what YOU are. Some of the best and worst that have gone before you is now somewhere in you.

The wisest thing you can do is to discover the most useful qualities of your Ancestry inside yourself, and begin to weave — from where it left off — greater and bigger things.

Ancestry stock goes up every time you do your work better To-day than Yesterday.

A story is told of Ney, one of Napoleon’s famous Marshals. At a banquet during the Russian campaign, a brilliant woman had been telling Ney of her wonderful Ancestry, when suddenly she questioned: “By the way, Marshal Ney, who were YOUR Ancestors?” “Madam,” answered Ney, “I, myself, am an Ancestor!”

After all, the task of being an Ancestor is mighty serious business. It is enough to put us all on our mettle and make us work to force the Red Blood into our Arteries.

In just the proportion that men and women render Service in this world do they forget their own selfish interests and begin to plan out and deal in “the Futures” of their Race. The man who will but get this truth imbedded into his system cannot fail to be a better Clerk, Lawyer, Business Man, Father — or Citizen. And no woman can take this idea to heart without putting Luster to the important duties of her life.

Ancestors? Why, we are ALL Ancestors!