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Henry Francis Brownson was the fourth son of "the greatest Catholic thinker of the 19th century", Orestes Brownson who is buried under the Basilica at the University of Notre Dame. Henry followed successfully in the intellectual and spiritual footsteps of his dad. In 1897 he gave this speech at Notre Dame. In that speech he said: "We have abolished rights of primogeniture and entails,.....preventing the growth of a hereditary aristocracy, and approaching equality....In our country, except in rare instances, the family expires when the husband and father dies. We, as a people, have no ancestors, no family traditions, no homestead that has remained in the same line for generations and around which cluster all the family associations and recollections." He explains how money interests, corporations, bankers and lawyers etc. have replaced the family as the basic unit of America. Unless America quits showing partiality to the rich, thereby sinning and violating the law of God and gets back to truly serving Jesus Christ and His Word it will perish. James 2: 9 But if ye have respect to (rich) persons, ye commit sin, and are convinced of the law as transgressors.
Henry Francis Brownson was the fourth son of "the greatest Catholic thinker of the 19th century", Orestes Brownson who is buried under the Basilica at the University of Notre Dame. Henry followed successfully in the intellectual and spiritual footsteps of his dad. In 1897 he gave this speech at Notre Dame. In that speech he said: "We have abolished rights of primogeniture and entails,.....preventing the growth of a hereditary aristocracy, and approaching equality....In our country, except in rare instances, the family expires when the husband and father dies. We, as a people, have no ancestors, no family traditions, no homestead that has remained in the same line for generations and around which cluster all the family associations and recollections." He explains how money interests, corporations, bankers and lawyers etc. have replaced the family as the basic unit of America. Unless America quits showing partiality to the rich, thereby sinning and violating the law of God and gets back to truly serving Jesus Christ and His Word it will perish. James 2: 9 But if ye have respect to (rich) persons, ye commit sin, and are convinced of the law as transgressors.
