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science are universally true and cover similar 

 facts and principles in all sciences. To estab- 

 lish the contrary requires demonstration of 

 the most conclusive character. 



In the present case we have an extraordin- 

 ary concentration of energy within a single 

 body — a fast trotter, — and that concentra- 

 tion must have occurred in strict accordance 

 with nature's laws. Physicists have studied 

 energy in its transformations through many 

 and various forms and have established the 

 doctrine that it can be neither created nor 

 annihilated, and the fact that it can be con- 

 centrated or stored only by work, — which is 

 the expenditure of other energy. Until con- 

 clusive evidence to the contrary is furnished, 

 it must be presumed that these are universal 

 in their application. 



We have our animal with an extraordinary 

 accumulation of energy over what existed in 

 previous generations. That energy is drawn 

 from food, but its concentration to a poten- 

 tial higher than that at which it exists in the 

 food must have been accomplished by the 



