Excerpt from History, Constitution, by-Laws Instructions to Applicants and a List of Members of the Society of Sons of the Revolution in Indiana
The Society is:
(1) A patriotic society, perpetuating the memory of the brave deeds of the forefathers, promoting patriotism in the present time, educating the young, inspiring respect for the flag, and providing and erecting memorials to those whose services in the military, naval and civil life of the Colonies helped to bring about American independence.
(2) A genealogical and historical society, preserving lines of family descent and family historical data; also manuscripts, records and other documents relating to the Revolutionary period.
(3) A society for conserving pride in clean, strong and honorable family stocks, thereby giving men an ideal to live up to and to add to, tending to make them better men both in citizenship and in the home.
The Meaning and Ideals of the Sons of the Revolution.
A people which takes no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote descendants.
It is impossible not to respect the sentiment which indicates itself by those tokens.
It is a sentiment which belongs to the higher and purer part of human nature, and which adds not a little to the strength of the States. - Macaulay.
I propose to show in this book that a man's natural abilities are derived by inheritance, under exactly the same limitations as are the form and physical features of the whole organic world. Consequently, it would be quite practicable to produce a highly gifted race of men by judicious marriages during several consecutive generations.
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