If so, we are left to dispose of the awful query, whether each inheritor of the property—conscious of wrong, and failing to rectify it—did not commit anew the great guilt of his ancestor, and incur all its original responsibilities.

如果是这样，我们就只能处理这个可怕的问题，即财产的每个继承人——意识到错误但未能纠正——是否没有重新犯下他祖先的大罪，并承担其所有原始责任。