24 CATTLE-BREEDING. 



action of this law, and to illustrate its scope 

 and its general prevalence, in order to preserve 

 due proportion in the explanation of the influ- 

 ences that are to be considered in breeding 

 cattle. 



{l Man must have recognized in the earliest 

 times the law that 'like produces like" as ap- 

 plied to man. The least observing mind would 

 early have this truth forced upon it. How well 

 fixed this was in the very earliest time of 

 which we have any account is illustrated in all 

 early records by the observed line of demarka- 

 tion which personal appearance drew between 

 different races. This was of course based on 

 the knowledge that from Greek parents could 

 spring only one having the Greek type of form 

 and feature; and so also of Egyptian, Hebrew, 

 Ethiopian, Accadian, etc.^ Nor are the earliest 

 literatures wanting in clear and distinct recog- 

 nition not merely of this law as applied to the 

 wide field of racial resemblances, but it is noted 

 with respect to tribal, family, even personal 

 resemblances. In these cases the law appears 

 as a recognized fact first as merely existing 

 it is not long till its power comes to be recog- 

 nized as a means to an end. Men began to se- 



*In the monuments of Egypt, for example, it is easy to trace the race 

 types assigned to different dynasties even, the Hyksos or Shepherd kings 

 being especially unlike native dynasties; and the Egyptian type is strongly 

 distinguished from others, such as the Assyrian, Hittite, etc.; so also in 

 the Assyrian and other monuments. 



