THE HUMAN HARVEST WAS BAD ! " 

 Thus the historian sums up the 

 conditions in Rome in the days of 

 the good emperor Marcus Aurehus. 



By this he meant that while population 

 and wealth were increasing, manhood had 

 failed. There were men enough in the 

 streets of Rome, men enough in the camps, 

 men enough in the menial labor or in no 

 labor at all, but of good soldiers there were 

 too few. "F/r had given place to homo,'' 

 Roman men to mere human beings. For 

 the business of the state, which in those days 

 was mainly war, the men were inadequate. 



In the recognition of this condition we 

 touch the overshadowing fact in the history 

 of Europe, the effect of military selection 

 on the breed of men. This lesson, in such 

 fashion as I may, 1 shall try to set forth in 

 these pages. 



In beginning this discussion I must bring 

 forward certain fragments of history, stories 

 told because they are true, and one parable 

 not true, but told for the lesson it teaches. 

 And this is the first: Once there was a man, 

 strong, wealthy and patient, who dreamed 



The 



Human 



Harvest 



A Dream 

 of fair 

 Horses 



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