The 

 Human 

 Harvest 



Men and 



beasts 



under the 



same lanvs 



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march of history who gives to history its 

 future trend. By the " man who is left " we 

 mean the man who remains at home to be- 

 come the father of the family, as distin- 

 guished from the man who in one way or 

 another is sacrificed for the nation's weal or 

 woe. If any class of men be destroyed by 

 political or social forces or by the action of 

 institutions, they leave no offspring, and 

 their like will cease to appear. 



" Send forth the best ye breed." If we were 

 to accept this advice literally and complete- 

 ly, the nation in time would breed only 

 second-rate men. By the sacrifice of their 

 best, or the emigration of the best, and by 

 such influences alone, have races and na- 

 tions fallen from first-rate to second-rate or 

 third-rate in the movement of history. 



For a race of men or a herd of cattle are 

 governed by the same laws of selection. 

 Those who survive inherit the traits of their 

 own actual ancestry. In the herd of cattle, 

 to destroy the strongest bulls, the fairest 

 cows, the most promising calves, is to allow 

 those not strong nor fair nor promising to 

 become the parents of the coming herd. 



