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steppes or at the edge of, or even in, the desert. Let us 

 suppose that the ass, from the energy point of view, was 

 then a highly energized animal. Let us suppose man had 

 already found the sheep. The greater intelligence of man 

 would lead the ass and the sheep to the green pastures and 

 the still waters. The superior intelligence of man, which had 

 invented the spear and developed the tribe to give effective, 

 watchful care against the wolf or the leopard, would lead 

 the ass and the sheep to a land of greater plenty in order 

 that, by the association of man with the sheep and the goat 

 and the ass, each could survive in larger numbers than if 

 each went its separate way. Thus the ass, the sheep, the 

 goat would find better pastures, and, in turn, man would 

 find food and clothing from the goat and the sheep and 

 transportation from the ass. 



The sheep and the goat were once wild, just as the ass was 

 once wild and just as man was once wild. Man could have 

 bred the sheep and goats only from the sheep and the goats 

 that would be least likely to run from the fold. Man did 

 not breed from the lost sheep. The lost sheep were prevented 

 from being man-bred by the wolf that took the lost sheep 

 for the good of the wolf. So, too, with the goat; so too with 

 the ass. 



The intelligence of man encircled the sheep and the goat 

 and the ass by a benevolent restraint, benefiting all three 

 partners; but the protection by man of the sheep, the swine, 

 the cattle has taken from them the necessity for high speed 

 or endurance. Wild asses, wild goats, wild boars all these 

 animals, when domesticated, have low-energy mechanisms. 



On the other hand, the constant adaptation by breeding 

 and work, of the pack horse, the work horse, the cavalry 

 horse has so changed their energy systems that they are 

 entirely different from the energy systems of the cow., the 

 sheep, the goat, and the swine. 



The ass was bred for docility and strength so that he 

 could carry his burden with the minimum of food. Had the 



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