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in which he can exercise a certain influence ; but 

 the variations thus produced are of a peculiar 

 kind, and do not correspond to the differences 

 of the wild Species. Let us take some examples 

 to illustrate this assertion. 



Every Species of wild Bull differs from the 

 others in its size ; but all the individuals corre- 

 spond to the average standard of size characteris- 

 tic of their respective Species, and show none of 

 those extreme differences of size so remarkable 

 among our domestic Cattle. Every Species of wild 

 Bull has its peculiar color, and all the individuals 

 of one Species share in it : not so with our do- 

 mesticated Cattle, among which every individual 

 may differ in color from every other. All the in- 

 dividuals of the same Species of wild Bull agree 

 in the proportion of their parts, in the mode of 

 growth of the hair, in its quality, whether fine or 

 soft : not so with our domesticated Cattle, among 

 which we find in the same Species overgrown 

 and dwarfish individuals, those with long and 

 short legs, with slender and stout build of the 

 body, with horns or without, as well as the great- 

 est variety in the mode of twisting the horns, 

 in short, the widest extremes of development 

 which the degree of pliability in that Species 

 will allow. 



A curious instance of the power of man, not 

 only in developing the pliability of an animal's 



