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against the possibility of domestication. 

 Alexander the Great found in India tamed 

 elephants that were used in battle, and yet 

 to this day they very rarely breed in 

 domestication. I know they are still caught 

 wild in India and then tamed. In Burmah 

 some hill folks half domesticate them. They 

 are kept tamed under wild conditions that 

 is, given little work and allowed to gather 

 their own food in the forests : under these 

 circumstances the elephant does breed." 



Both among civilised and uncivilised 

 people females of domestic breeds are some- 

 times mated with wild males of the allied 

 races, for the purpose not so much of im- 

 proving the physique as of increasing courage 

 or ferocity of disposition. 



In connection with domestication, the 

 evolution of the Horse is extremely inter- 

 esting. Palaeontologists tell us that the 

 Horse as we see him is the outcome of 

 evolution through several epochs, and that 

 as we know him he first appeared in the 

 Pleistocene age, probably about the same 

 time as man. In that age the formerly 

 marshy surface of the earth had become 

 hard and the herbage denser, and the 

 changes in structure in his last transforma- 

 tion were principally in the feet and jaws, 



