The 

 Human 

 Harvest 



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who is left marks the future of his kind. The 

 history of the steed is an elongation of the 

 history of those who are chosen for parent- 

 age. And with the best of the best chosen 

 for parentage, the best of the best appears 

 in the progeny. The horse-harvest is good 

 in each generation. As the seed we sow, so 

 shall we reap. 



And this story is true, known to thousands 

 of men. And it will be true again just as 

 often as men may try to carry it into experi- 

 ment. Anditwillbetrue not of horses alone, 

 for the four fates which guide and guard life 

 have no partiality for horses, but work just 

 as persistently for cattle or sheep, or plums 

 or roses, or calla or cactus, as they do for 

 horses or for men. From the very begin- 

 ning of life they have wrought untiringly 

 — and in your life and in mine — in the 

 grass of the field, the trees of the forest — 

 in bird and beast, everywhere we find the 

 traces of their energy. 



And this brings me to my second story, 

 which is not true as history, but only in its 

 way as parable, forever trying to become 

 true. 



