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of ancestry, — with all their peculiarities of spirit and 

 structure, of like and unlike qualities, of elements harmo- 

 nious and antagonistic, — are represented in him. To 

 study him is to study them. To know him is to know 

 them. You must gauge the force that is not before 

 you can gauge the force that is. History must assist 

 observation, and reading be joined to sight. 



Is it extravagant, then, for me to ask. What higher 

 study can there be than this, — this study into life mus- 

 cular and nervous, mental and emotional ? What nobler 

 subject than this, — the investigation of those laws by 

 which life, in all its changes and gradations, is transmit- 

 ted from sire to son ? What more difficult problem than 

 this, the solution of which should reveal to us the 

 forceful properties which repeat themselves in animal as 

 well as human life, and which may, therefore, be re- 

 garded as truly representative of that order of exist- 

 ence with which we behold them associated ? And yet 

 men have expected, without knowledge or study, or fa- 

 cilities whereby to conduct the business advantageously, 

 to make great fortunes out of breeding ; and people can 

 be found all over New England and the country who 

 will question the profitableness of breeding fine horses, 

 on the ground that many of those who have attempted 

 it have not been successful ; failing to see, or else pur- 

 posely ignoring the fact, that the reason why these gen- 

 tlemen have failed to achieve success in their efforts is 

 because their efforts were not directed by a sufficient in- 

 telligence in respect to the business they had undertaken. 



