He was a veritable emancipator who informed me that heredity did not work from uncle to nephew; that not more than a predisposition to consumption could pass even from parent to child; that a predisposition to consumption would come to nothing without the germ of the disease and the environmental conditions which favor its development; and that if those so predisposed avoid gross infection, lead a healthy life, and breathe fresh air they are as safe as though no tuberculous lungs had ever existed in the world.
"Civics and Health"
William H. Allen
Why should a man hope to prosper by estranging his best Friend, his emancipator and Guide?
"The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Exodus"
G. A. Chadwick
Heine calls Lessing, after Luther, the greatest German emancipator.
"A Biographical Dictionary of Freethinkers of All Ages and Nations"
Joseph Mazzini Wheeler