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3407. GENERATIONS, Succession of.—

It is a law of nature that the generations of
men should give way, one to another, and I
hope that the one now on the stage will preserve
for their sons the political blessings delivered
into their hands by their fathers.—
To Spencer Roane. Washington ed. vii, 211. Ford ed., x, 188.
(M. 1821)