The 

 Human 

 Harvest 



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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 member of a favored 

 equine aristocracy, 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 waking 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 accom- 

 plished either in nature or in art. And these 

 forces once in his service, he left to their con- 

 trol all the plans included in his great am- 

 bition. 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 were ever quite the same, the 



