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the most vigorous, stout, and well-made men in a kingdom are to be 

 found in the army, and these men in general cannot marry. "^ 



What is true of standing armies is far more true of armies that 

 fight and fall ; for as Franklin said again, '' Wars are not paid for 

 in war times : the bill comes later." 



In the discussion of the principles involved in Franklin's words, 

 I must lay before you four fragments of history, three stories told 

 because they are true, and one parable not true, but told for the 

 lesson it teaches. And this is the first: Once there was a man 

 strong, wealthy and patient, who dreamed of a finer type of horse 

 than had ever yet existed. This horse should be handsome, clean- 

 limbed, intelligent, docile, strong and swift. These traits were to 

 be not those of one horse alone, a number of a favored equine aris- 

 tocracy, they were to be '' bred in the bone " so that they would 

 continue from generation to generation, the attributes of a special 

 common type of horse. And with this dream ever before his wak- 

 ing eyes, he invoked for his aid, the four twin genii of organic life, 

 the four by which all the magic of transformism of species has been 

 accomplished either in nature or in art. And these forces once in 

 his service, he left to their control all the plans included in his great 

 ambition. These four genii or fates are not strangers to us, nor 

 were they new to the human race. Being so great and so strong, 

 they are invisible to all save those who seek them. Men who deal 

 with them after the fashion of science give them commonplace 

 names, variation, heredity, segregation, selection. 



Because not all horses are alike, because in fact no two wtre 

 ever quite the same, the first appeal was made to the genius of 

 Variation. Looking over the world of horses, he found to his hand 

 Kentucky race horses, clean-limbed, handsome and fleet, some more 

 so and others less. So those which had the most of the virtues of 

 the horse which was to be were chosen to be blended in new crea- 

 tion. Then again, he found thoroughbred horses of Arabian stock, 

 hardy and strong and intelligent. These virtues were needed in 

 the production of the perfect horse. And here came the need of 

 the second genius, who is called Heredity. With the crossing of 

 the racer with the thoroughbred, all qualities of both were blended 



