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of any depreciation either of the knowledge or of the industry of these gentlemen. 

 Mr. Allison has certainly established that, other things being equal, a mare of a good 

 family is better than a mare of a bad family. But this doctrine has been acted upon 

 for a long while already, and I cannot see that any grounds have been furnished for 

 elaborating a further advance upon the interesting statistics Mr. Allison has collected, 

 statistics which seem to me to have a value entirely independent of the Figure 

 System or any other system which may be founded upon them ; and it is in a 

 purely independent manner that they have been used in this book. 



The Duke of Schlvsmig-Hohteiifs "Zampa" 



