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extent prevailed in ancient Sparta, and as to a certain 

 extent has been suggested of late years by some 

 Socialist cranks in Europe — can it be imagined that 

 the inspectors of breeding of that good time to come 

 would seek to invigorate the blood of the Norman 

 house of ' Vere de Vere ' by crossing it with a good fat, 

 lusty mulatto ? Hardly ! Why not ? The answer 

 would be, Because you could never be sure that the 

 black blood would not come out. Like breeds like, 

 and there is always a tendency to revert. The 

 Bedouin knows this, and will not run the risk of 

 having his horses ruined by ' Flemish fat.' They 

 can rely upon the one ; no man can rely upon the 

 other. 



Mr. J. L. Lupton writes that the Eastern horse has 

 maintained his type through a thousand years. He 

 might have written through many thousand years. 



In an account in the Times or the Mail, April 13, 

 1904, of some instructive preparations illustrating the 

 evolution of the horse and the origin of the thorough- 

 bred, at the British Museum of Natural History at 

 South Kensington, the writer, when referring to the 

 pit in the skull found in some Indian fossil horses, 

 states that, from the fact that a similar pit is 

 found in the skulls of Bend Or and of Stockwell, it 

 seems highly probable that the Arab stock which 

 forms the foundation of our thoroughbreds was 

 originally imported from India. 



The writer of this paragraph, and the scientists 

 who investigated the fossils and the skulls, were not 



