James Sidney Rollins: Memoir (Classic Reprint)

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Thus it appears that James Sidney Rollins, like SO many who have signalized themselves in history, drew the current Of his life from many fountains. On the paternal side two streams of Celtic blood, a Scotch and an Irish, were mingled: the one contributing the firmness, the persistence, the earnestness, the Shrewdness, the sagacity, the sense Of Opportunity that conquer success in every undertaking; the other softening these rugged virtues with the genial humor, the quick sympathy, the generous impulses, the large benevolence that everywhere and at all times ennoble the true son Of Erin. In life and in death this inheritance in the veins of the father, Dr. Rollins, was not divided, as his beneficent career as physician, but still more his' remarkable bequest hereafter to be mentioned, bears ample witness. Side by Side, however, with this mingled stream there coursed through the veins Of the son, James Sidney, the full tide of Saxon blood, with its strength, its courage, its audacity, its lust Of combatand conquest, and its delight in power. These were a mother's gift, received from her father to be delivered to her son.

Two distinct races contend with almost equal right in the books Of the learned for the glory of being the original Aryans and of having sown in Europe the germs of western and modern civiliza tion: the celto-slavic, tall, brawny, broad-headed, ruddy alike Of hair and of skin the Teutonic, taller still, huge of limb, light of hair, above all, however, long-headed. The brawn and brain Of these two races march forward together to the subjugation of the planet; and it is no empty rhetoric nor fulsome laudation, but naked histor ical fact, that their bloods met in the veins Of James Sidney Rollins, and in just proportion.

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