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DOMESTICATED ANIMALS 



imperfect human body, making it fit for great deeds. If the 

 horse had been much smaller or larger than he is, he would 

 have been far less serviceable to man. It was a most fortu- 

 nate accident that the creature came to us with the propor- 

 tions which insured a high measure of utility in various lines 

 of activity. The elephant has been found too large for agri- 



Mare and Foal 



cultural uses, and too powerful to be controlled by the will 

 and force of his master under conditions of excitement. 



Those peoples which early acquired the resources in the 

 way of strength and fleetness which the horse put at their 

 disposition, became inevitably the conquerors of the folk who 

 were denied these advantages. If we consider the conditions 

 which have led to the domination of the world by the Aryan 

 and Semitic people, and the races which they have affiliated 

 with them, we readily discern the fact that they have, to a 



