Excerpt from Collections for a History of the Ancient Family of Bland IT is the opinion of all the best Writers upon the subject of genealogy, that, from whatever motives, the Pride of Ancestry and the Ambition to perpetuate a Name in the persons of our Posterity may proceed, these Principles are productive of good effects upon Society, - and, that it ought to be a political object of the Statesman to give encourage ment to them, even if the Vanity of Man did not of itself afford sufficient inducement. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.