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The assumed 2 : 10 trotter accumulates 

 energy by being trained, but the amount of 

 his energy is more than the ordinary horse 

 can obtain in this way. It is also more than 

 any ancestor had. It must, therefore, be the 

 sum of what he received from his parents, 

 plus what he accumulated. But that is the 

 case of every horse not capable of becoming 

 a 2 : 10 trotter, consequently he must have 

 received from his parents more energy than 

 is received by the ordinary horse. It goes 

 without saying that parents cannot transmit 

 more energy than they have, and the princi- 

 ples previously stated preclude either crea- 

 tion or accidental concentration. Calling the 

 thing transmitted by some other name, as 

 "ability," does not evade the issue, because 

 ability comes from energy and is measured by 

 energy. Hence, the parents themselves must 

 have had more energy than ordinary parents. 



This removes the difficulty one step but 

 does not solve the problem. We cannot push 

 back the question step by step to the assump- 

 tion that the earliest ancestors had as much 



