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above mentioned. The various breeds of our 

 domesticated Horses present the same kind of 

 irregularities, and do not differ from each other 

 in the same way as the wild Species differ from 

 one another. Or take the Genus Dog : the differ- 

 ences between its wild Species do not correspond 

 in the least with the differences observed among 

 the domesticated ones. Compare the differences 

 between the various kinds of Jackals and Wolves 

 with those that exist between the Bull-Dog and 

 Greyhound, for instance, or between the St. 

 Charles and the Terrier, or between the Esqui- 

 maux and the Newfoundland Dog. I need 

 hardly add, that what is true of the Horses, 

 the Cattle, the Dogs, is true also of the Donkey, 

 the Goat, the Sheep, the Pig, the Cat, the Rabbit, 

 the different kinds of barn-yard fowl, in short, 

 of all those animals that are in domesticity the 

 chosen companions of man.- 



In fact, all the variability among domesticated 

 Species is due to the fostering care, or, in its 

 more extravagant freaks, to the fancies of man ; 

 and it has never been observed in the wild Species, 

 where, on the contrary, everything shows the 

 closest adherence to the distinct, well-defined, 

 and invariable limits of the Species. It surely 

 does not follow, that, because the Chinese can, 

 under abnormal conditions, produce a variety of 

 fantastic shapes in the Golden Carp, therefore 



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