At least they were not so to the degree which 

 the dream of fair horses demanded. By the 

 force of Selection, all such were sent away. 

 Variation was always at work making one 

 colt unlike another; Heredity made each 

 colt a blend or mosaic of traits of sire and 

 of grandsires and granddams ; Selection left 

 only good traits to form this mosaic, and 

 the grandsire and granddam, sire and dam, 

 and the rest of the ancestry lived their lives 

 again in the expanding circle of descent. 



Thus, in the final result, the horses who 

 were left were the horses of their owner's 

 dream. The future of the breed was fixed, 

 and fixed at the beginning by the very fram- 

 ing of the conditions under which it lived. 

 It is variation which gives better as well as 

 worse. It is heredity which saves all that has 

 been attained — for better or for worse. It 

 is selection by which better triumphs over 

 worse, and itis segregation which protects the 

 final result from falling again into the grasp 

 of the general average. In all this, selection 

 is the vital, moving, changing force. It 

 throws the shaping of the future on the in- 

 dividual chosen by the present. The horse 



The 

 Human 



Harvest 



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