Lineage consciousness drove Samuel Seabury’s lifelong reform zeal

Evidence

Samuel Seabury had, even as a boy studying in his father’s library with the portraits of a dozen famous ancestors peering down, stern and patrician, on his work, been markedly aware and proud of this lineage of law and righteousness, and determined to live up to it. — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker, 1560

Categorization

• XREF: Parallels Yale/Oxford chapters (ch6) on how hereditary elitism fed noblesse oblige ideology in reformers like Moses.