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arrived at any correct unclerstanding of this matter of breed- 

 ing the horse, I am quite sure that 1 owe it, more largely than 

 to any other one thing, to the fact that I took it up reveren- 

 tially. "A brutish man knoweth not God," said the old 

 Psalmist. lie neither knows him in his essential nature, as 

 he is unexpressed, as spirit, nor does he know him as he is 

 expressed in organism and structure. There is a certain fine- 

 ness of fibre required in the mind to understand these things, 

 which lie so closely to the edge and verge of Deity. If I 

 have arrived at any truth in this matter, I say, I believe 

 I owe it more to the fact that I took the first knowledge that I 

 discovered out of the Bible, and with it was associated in my 

 mind all the traditional reverence, if you please, in which 

 I bad been trained touching the Word of God. I remember 

 well how long I tioundored about in the mire of discussion 

 and antagonism, and difference of opinion on the part of wise 

 men as they would be called, in reference to this matter, and 

 I remember well, how, one evening, in looking upon the pages 

 of the open Bible, I struck the bottom fact which underlies, 

 as I conceive, the whole subject; and it was in that plain, 

 ordinary sentence, which all of you know, but which few of 

 you, perhaps, have ever felt in its full significance, that 

 "every seed should bring forth after its kind." I said, "Find 

 the highest type to perform the parental act, and you can 

 repeat the typical creation. Find two parents that represent 

 the original idea in any organism or structure, and I can 

 repeat the original idea." Find the typical rose of all the 

 world, and you can repeat the first rose that ever was made. 

 Find the representative daisy, and you can repeat the original 

 daisy form. Find the original perfection of horse structure, 

 horse temperament, horse form, and you have got back face 

 to fiice with the original idea that was in God's mind before 

 ever he stamped it into the physical structure of the noble 

 animal. 



I will pass over the history of the breeding and manage- 

 ment of the horse, one of the most unique and wondcrfid 

 which the literature of the world records, pausing simpl}-. to 

 say we are only discovering and learning over again the lost 

 wisdom of the world. The Egyptians, for instance, three 

 thousand years ago, bred five or six different styles of horse, 



