198 THE ARAB THE HORSE OF THE FUTURE 



for long and heavy gallops, often repeated during 

 many years, with heavy weights, for which purpose he 

 wants a horse with staying powers, with a hardy, 

 docile nature, and with courage, that can go long 

 journeys day after day on bad feed, with but little 

 water, and that can be relied on. The Bedouin 

 knows the thoroughbred cannot do this, and that his 

 own horse can, and he knows also that the cross will 

 spoil his own breed, so he will have none of it. 



As Major- General Tweedie, in his great work, 

 writes : ' Nothing would induce the breeders of the 

 pure Arabian horse to use the English stallion. . . . 

 Experience has fortified them against the idea that 

 mixed and impure blood would improve the pure 

 and superior.' 



The Bedouin has experience of a different nature 

 from that of the racing breeder. The experience 

 which refers to the dodo is that of the racing 

 breeder — experience with regard to a half-mile 

 sprint with light weights : just a few half-miles 

 in the course of the creature's life, pampered, 

 doctored, forced, and then useless. The experience 

 of the Bedouin is experience with regard to forced 

 marches, long gallops, heavy weights, short rations, 

 frequent battles and the saving of men's lives during 

 many years. 



Supposing that Socialistic principles were to be 

 hereafter carried out to their extremest extent, and 

 that the State ultimately undertook the supervision 

 of the breeding of the human animal — as to a certain 



