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we would need to bequeath its accomplishment to 
posterity, its initiation is commendable; for, apart from 
the enlarged conception of duty imposed by the 
enlightenment of our age, the stream of accruing 
advantage, at first imperceptible, would steadily broaden 
to its full measure of beneficence. Nature does not 
advance “‘persaltum.” Neither the animal or fish breeder 
can hope to develop marked deviations from existing 
varieties save with assiduous care and prolonged effort, 
and the highest intelligence devoted to that end is 
certain of reward. Our splendid civilization is based 
upon the humble beginnings of remote ancestors and 
enlarged by the intermittent labors of innumerable 
generations, the accumulated results of which it is ours 
to enjoy. That perfected stage that is perhaps to be 
the heritage of our posterity might have been the 
present, if each generation of even our own era had 
been endowed with a sense of the duty that it becomes 
us)to exercise. 
It is by some maintained that the world’s wheat crop 
of 1893 was inadequate, but if the shortage should be 
sufficient to advance prices, the crop of 1894 will be 
that of an increased acreage. If a century or more 
hence a deficiency should occur with the utmost 
development of the earth's agricultural resources, a 
second year of scanty production, in the absence of an 



IV. Invariably by friendand enemy alike the English are described as the fiercest 
people in all Europe (Benvenuto Cellini callsthem the English wild beasts) and this 
great physical power they owed to the profuse abundance ir which they lived. A 
sturdy, high hearted race, sound in body and fierce in spirit, and furnished with thews 
and sinews which under the stimulus of ‘‘those great shins of beef’? were the wonder 
of the age. Froudes’ History England Vol. I, Chapter I. Their food consisteth 
principally in beef and such meat as the butcher selleth whereof the one findeth great 
‘store in the markets. Harrison's Vescription of England, page 282. 
V. Despite local famines estimated to have carried off directly or indirected 
several fililiona, the population of India, according to the census of 1891, increasly 
30,000,000 with the previous decade. 
VI. Every yearin some portion of the empire 50.000 or 60,000 of its people were 
gathered in animmense circle under the direction of some high official or of the Inca 
himself. Within this contracting cordon all harmful animals were destroyed, the male 
deer and the poorer wild sheep were slaughtered and the skins and meat distributed, 
The better sheep or Yicunae, after shearing, were let go, as were also the does and 
fawns. No one section was allowed to be hunted oftener than once.in four years, and 
then only under government direction and supervision. See book I, Vol. I, Prescott’s 
Conquest of Peru. 
