INTELLIGENCE, POWER, 



weighed 521.52 kilograms. The animal taken in Kentucky 

 was one of the most highly energized animals known. The 

 forebears of this animal point back forty-two million years. 

 The animal from the arctic has a heritage of forty million 

 years. Therefore, both the animal from Kentucky and the 

 animal from Hudson Bay preceded the animal that rode the 

 Kentucky thoroughbred Equipoise in his winning race or 

 dissected the white whale of the cold north by millions of 

 years, for the animal man is credited with a heritage of less 

 than a million years on this earth. 



The weight of the brain of Equipoise, one of the swiftest 

 warm-blooded animals known, was 808.5 grams. Equipoise 

 was geared for a high-speed, short dash to exhaustion. 

 The weight of the brain of the white whale that was obliged 

 to keep its protoplasmic fires burning constantly at a high 

 level in the cold arctic sea and that had to swim to the 

 surface at short intervals to breathe was 2,355 grams. 



The extraordinary number of individual acts in the 

 process of breathing and the infinite number of impulses 

 from the brain to the muscles to maintain the internal 

 protoplasmic fires at such intense heat against the cold 

 demanded an exceptionally large thyroid gland in the whale 

 for stepping up the rate of oxidation of the brain. For the 

 white whale this requirement was vital. 



For Equipoise the opposite was needed. To win the race, 

 the vital requirement for Equipoise was an adrenal gland 

 larger than the thyroid gland. The following table shows the 

 marked contrast in the energy requirements of these two 

 animals. 



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