It stops progress, but it also helps it onit hinders, but it also helps; and nothing in the world seems to me so Divine as the way in which God is using and mastering heredity for good.

Because, replied Hippocrates, domestic affairs hinder, necessary to be done for ourselves, neighbours, friends; expenses, diseases, frailties and mortalities which happen; wife, children, servants, and such business which deprive us of our time.