Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled!
If we could remove the drag of the mediocre element in ancestry, were it only for a few generations, we should sensibly eliminate regression or create a stock of exceptional men. This is precisely what is done by the breeder in selecting and isolating a stock until it is established. - Carl Pearson
Mother of American Medical Association founder Nathan Smith.
In a speech given October 5th, 1901 Nathan Smith said "At the age of seven years, as a boy who had never been outside of his father’s farm, born in a log house, and when still in a log house, I was called to the bedside of my dying mother to receive her last words. I was the youngest of a family of seven children; I was in my seventh year. It made a vivid impression upon my mind. She was a Christian - a reader of the Bible. She said to me that she wished me to be a good boy, to learn to worship God and to do good to my fellowmen."
