34 Permanence and Evolution. 



respects, were dun-striped from the beginning ; 

 as to the other cases, nothing is known of the 

 individuals in question, so there is no reason 

 to suppose the cross by which their colour was 

 acquired to have been remote ; this is not the 

 only instance in which Darwin speaks of breeds 

 when he ought to have spoken of individuals. 

 Against this we have to place the known per- 

 manence of colour in the horse ; if out of a 

 hundred horses born of parents of the same 

 colour, only ten come wrong, and when the 

 grandparents are of the same, no appreciable 

 number, how then from a uniform dun-striped 

 stock, with no tendency to revert to anything, 

 can the birth of the first black horse, bay or 

 other, be made conceivable ? Darwin says the 

 reason why inheritance appears more certain 

 with the horse than with other animals, is 

 probably only because its breeding has been 

 more attended to. With this I heartily concur. 



