A SCIENCE AND AN ART. 21 



minute and often laborious and always prosaic 

 things be done by the painter ere the first 

 outline is traced upon the final canvas. The 

 sculptor must seek his clay often at great trou- 

 ble, must mould and model and toil at many a 

 little and irksome task before he can think of 

 the marble. There are no less many prosaic 

 things in our breeding of cattle, and I shall 

 write of many details that are important, if 

 scarcely counted in the final sum. The cattle- 

 breeder needs no one to tell him how many 

 little trials he meets day by day, how many 

 sore disappointments, how many things that 

 make him think that he lives for the day and 

 not for any high and noble end. What I have 

 written here I have written largely with a view 

 to call off the mind from this one view of the 

 subject. It is a great help to rise above the 

 little and narrow view and see the world from 

 an entirely new and wider standpoint. How dif- 

 ferent the impression created upon the mind by 

 a single landscape viewed from the level of the 

 plain and again from some lofty mountain top! 

 And so it is here. Not that I would have the 

 plain, straightforward business aspect ignored. 

 Wherever business relations enter the field 

 they are honorable and of the highest impor- 

 tance. They are, however, not likely to be 

 overlooked; they are too aggressive and thrust 

 themselves too much on our attention. We are 



