872 A HISTORY OF SHORT-HORN CATTLE. 



duties and responsibilities which no man can 

 conscientiously ignore lies at the bottom of 

 failures innumerable. 



The future. The dawn of the new century 

 presents a most attractive field for those who 

 undertake to conscientiously promote the best 

 interests of the Short-horn breed. We have 

 seen that at regular intervals men possessing 

 original creative power have made a world- 

 wide name and fame for themselves in this line 

 of work; but with all due respect to what these 

 great minds have accomplished, it is folly to 

 say that all knowledge and skill in connection 

 with Short-horn breeding perished with them. 

 What has been done in the past can be repeated 

 in the future, but the triumphs of the twentieth 

 century await not those who are servile imita- 

 tors, but the worthy ones who have the neces- 

 sary courage to undertake the development 

 along independent lines of the tribes of Short- 

 horns which shall engage the attention of the 

 historians of the days to come. 



