INTELLIGENCE, POWER, 



ass been bred by the intelligence of man for cavalry or for 

 sport, as is the thoroughbred horse, or for turning a wheel, 

 for drawing a load, or for ploughing the field, the same human 

 intelligence would have stepped up the energy system of 

 the ass as it did in the work horse or in the thoroughbred. 

 If the ass had been turned loose and exposed to the lion or 

 the wolf, either the ass would have perished as a species 

 or it would have matched the lion and the wolf through the 

 breeding of energy-for-survival characteristics, as in the 

 case of the zebra. This the wild ass did. 



The question arises, could a domestic animal be bred by 

 the intelligence of man in the arctic or in the temperate 

 zone to as low an energy level as that of the ass ? We 

 believe not, for since the ass is warm-blooded, its existence 

 as a species demands the maintenance of the warm- 

 blooded state. The warm-blooded state is maintained 

 solely by an animal's own oxidation, except as man shelters 

 and warms animals. Had the ass been bred in the cold north 

 and been left unsheltered to take the penetrating cold, it 

 would have developed the high-energy equipment of the 

 Shetland pony, the husky dog, the wolf, the caribou, and the 

 Eskimo. 



Therefore, we may conclude that in the tropics the ass 

 could not have taken the pattern of low energy of the tropics 

 except by the encirclement of man's protecting intelligence. 

 Man's protecting intelligence allowed the element of 

 tropical warmth to demobilize the thyroid gland and the 

 adrenal glands of the ass. The one feature that was stepped 

 up by the intelligence of man was that which could most 

 effectively advance the progress of man. Therefore, the ass 

 that was most trustworthy and could best carry the heavy 

 load survived by being bred. An ass that would kick his 

 master or buck him off its back or run away would not 

 receive the approval of its master and, therefore, would be . 

 less likely to multiply and replenish its kind. 



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