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We must measure the amount of work 

 performed by the parents of these 2 : 10 

 trotters before they produced these particu- 

 lar animals and then see if the accumulation 

 of energy by these parents was greater than 

 that which horses usually accumulated before 

 being bred. If this examination shows an 

 actual excess accumulation by the parents 

 of these trotters before reproduction, then 

 that fact will point to the accuracy of the 

 theoretical considerations advanced. If they 

 do not show this excess accumulation, then 

 the theory falls to the ground. It will not fall 

 to the ground because some single case may 

 show a lack of accumulation by the parents, 

 because the accumulation may be further 

 back, and the parents may have simply 

 worked enough to preserve and pass along 

 what they received from the grandparents. 

 But it will fall to the ground if any single 

 case can be found in which the calculations 

 for work performed within three or four 

 generations is clearly not enough in total 

 to produce an accumulation which will ac- 



