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them as quickly as possible. As long as an individual 

 is working, these products are accumulating. . . . 



6 A certain portion of the twenty-four hours of the 

 day can be devoted to work, and a certain portion 

 must be devoted to rest, to rid the organism of waste 

 products. The capacity for work, or the labour value 

 of the individual, can only be decided by the amount 

 of waste products produced and powers of elimination 

 of the organism. . . . The organism becomes poisoned 

 by the product of its biological activity. Labour 

 beyond the power of elimination will devitalise the 

 individual, and add another pauper to charitable in- 

 stitutions.' 



These remarks apply with equal force to camels. 

 Work in excess of the power of elimination will deprive 

 a camel of his vitality, and if continued will add one 

 more victim to an unending death roll, and leave 

 another corpse for the delectation of the feathered and 

 four-footed carrion. 



It stands to reason, therefore, that no stallions or potion as 



to breed- 

 females that are employed for breeding should ever be in s 



worked. Let them be kept exclusively for this purpose 

 and no other. To keep them in condition give them 

 plenty of exercise, but on no account work. The best 

 way to obtain this is to let them run free in good pas- 

 ture, only bringing them in morning and night to feed 

 them on wholesome and nourishing food. If worked 

 at all, it would be wiser to kill them outright than to 

 work them to a state of devitalisation, because, as we 

 have seen, the tendency to physical and mental weak- 

 ness is inherent, and can be transmitted to offspring, 

 and we cannot expect any but a still more inferior type 



