But suffering is often the result of accident or of malice, or of mistake, which cannot be referred to hereditary sin.
"The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St. John, Vol. I"
Marcus Dods
Those who are affected by it are not permitted to marry if the disease has once declared itself; so that as a hereditary affliction it is very properly kept in check.
"Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia"
Maturin M. Ballou
The change which was effected by the legislation of the Revolution was not a development of a fourth estate, as is sometimes said; it was really nothing more than the creation of a money aristocracy, and the putting of them in the place of the old hereditary nobility.
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae