have been, which determines the course of 

 inheritance. From the actual parents actual 

 qualities are received, the traits of the man 

 or woman as they might have been, with- 

 out regard, so far as we know, to the way 

 in which these qualities have been actually 

 developed. 



No race as a whole can be made up of 

 " degenerate sons of noble sires." Where 

 decadence exists, the noble sires have per- 

 ished, either through evil influences, as in 

 the slums of great cities, or else through the 

 movements of history or the growth of in- 

 stitutions. If a nation sends forth the best 

 it breeds to destruction, the second best 

 will take their vacant places. The weak, the 

 vicious, the unthrifty will propagate, and in 

 default of better will have the land to them- 

 selves. 



We may now see the true significance of 

 the " Man of the Hoe," as painted by Mil- 

 let, and as pictured in Edwin Markham's 

 verse. This is the Norman peasant, low- 

 browed, heavy-jawed, "the brother of the 

 ox," gazing with lack-lustre eye on the 

 things about him. To a certain extent he is 



The 



Human 



Harvest 



The man 

 of the Hoe 



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