something pervading his whole body, recalled so thoroughly the idea of the Oriental 

 family that one was disposed to take him for an enlarged Arabian. 



"This fact often related to us excited our curiosity. We did not rest until, 

 pressing inquiry upon inquiry, one after another, we ascertained that this family 

 had been crossed with a stallion from the Pin stables standing at the Chateau of 

 Coesmes, near Bellevue. And what was this stallion? The Arabian 'Gallipoli.' " 



The great DuHays further advises his countrymen : 



"If it be necessary to give more style to the action, and more richness to the 

 blood, ask these qualities of the Arab, which has the privilege of imparting style 

 and tone, while preserving weight, hardihood, vigor and docility. The Arabian is 

 kind, intelligent, reliable, laborious and easily kept." 



Consanguinity, Commonly Called Inbreeding. 



I believe the natural laws controUing this phase of animal breeding are less 

 understood than any other one feature that enters into the creation and regen- 

 eration of animal life. 



We are accustomed to seeing instances of degeneracy on account of con- 

 sanguinity in the human race in America, and the conclusion, without further 

 thought, is that inbreeding is forever prohibited by nature in all of her mammal 

 kingdom. 



But on further reflection we are compelled to remember that the great Ana- 

 2eh tribes of Bedouins of the Arabian Desert have remained pure in one blood 

 for ages. According to their own traditions and history they are the same in 

 blood today as their progenitor Ishmael, the son of Abraham and Hagar. These 

 very exclusive people maintain their own blood purity with the same care and 

 precision with which they breed their horses, and certainly there is no question 

 about them being an intensely inbred race, in fact the purest of all of the human 

 races. There is no sign of degeneracy among them in the physical sense, and 

 they are pronounced by those in position to know as the most highly moral race 

 of people, in many respects, in the world. 



The Japanese race is pure in blood or nearly so, as is the case with the Chi- 

 nese race. The aboriginal race of humans found in Peru by cruel Spanish ex- 

 plorers (invaders) were a thoroughbred people which were, according to history, 

 matchless in physical as well as of good mental development and they were in- 

 tensely inbred, but suffered very rapid physical, mental and moral degeneracy 

 under Spanish rule, and the blood mixing that followed in the so-called civilizing 

 of that people. For want of space my remarks cannot amount to more than 

 hints along this line. 



There is another daily illustration here in America of the evils that follow 

 violent mongrelization rather than inbreeding (I refer to the negro). Statistics 

 show that the *part-bred negro does not possess the physical vigor and health 

 that is possessed by the pure blood negro who was not produced as the result of 

 a violent out-cross. In the lower mammal kingdom we have every evidence of 

 the benefit of inbreeding or consanguinity in all instances where the blood is pure. 



*Whit€ and negro race mixtures in blood. 



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