Suppose I told you, Betty, that I know where grandma's inheritance is this minute?"

As this: "An inheritance is money."

His father died in the end of the year, and Johnson's whole immediate inheritance was twenty pounds.

"The noblest inheritance", he says, "that can ever be left by a father to his son, far excelling that of lands and houses, is the fame of his virtues and glorious actions"; and saddest of all sights is that of a noble house dragged through the mire by some degenerate descendant, so as to be a by-word among the populace,"which may" (he concludes) "be justly said of but too many in our times".

The following statement by one of the ablest exponents of this doctrine will explain what this claim signifies "We claim an equal right to this 'inheritance of mankind,' which by our institutions a minority is at present enabled to monopolize, and which it does monopolize and use in order to extort thereby an unearned increment; and this inheritance is true capital.

Personality itself is not a merely individual product: neither the knowledge nor the activity of the individual can be explained without reference to his position as a member of society; his inheritance is a social inheritance.

The inheritance of a brave spirit and a noble mind is a sufficient justification for a reasonable pride; but not so with the heritage of materials which are continually interchanging with the clod.

While thus prospering in the world he married, became the father of seven children, of whom three were sons; and died without suspecting that his name would be handed down to posterity through the medium of one of these almost portionless boys, whose sole inheritance was a small dairy-farm of the annual value of twelve hundred livres.

"Inheritance by mere descent is a notion no longer favoured.

Observe the wayward boy whose chief inheritance is a wild, wilful nature.

" This revelation of lineage, nevertheless, was an added incentive to strive for higher things; an inheritance more enduring than our little tin box and black silk stockings which had belonged to mother.

It is a promise of health, happiness, and usefulness to many an unfortunate little waif, whose earthly inheritance is utter blackness, and whose moral blight can be outgrown and succeeded by a development of intelligence and love of virtue.

So they came to the issue that they should make an attempt upon the king's son to destroy him, that the inheritance might be theirs.

His inheritance is the chambermaid, but often purchaseth his master's daughter, by reason of opportunity, or for want of a better, he always cuckolds himself, and never marries but his own widow.

INHERITANCE OF ACQUIRED CHARACTERS Darwin's theory of pangenesis was an attempt to harmonize everything known in his time about heredity.

We remember her counsels, oft mingled with tears; The truths by example express'd; An inheritance rich, is the wealth of her prayers: Is the child or the mother more blest?