8 THE RIGHT TO BE WELL BORN 



ing from over-straining the unfit, who at- 

 tempt to do things which they were not 

 ordained by nature to perform, — a "shoe- 

 maker to his last" and each to his calling. 

 It means the breeding out of weaklings and 

 defectives, and the breeding in only of the 

 fittest and the best. It means the saving 

 of our country from moral and physical 

 decay; and the preservation of its integ- 

 rity as well as its position among nations. 



All this and more I hope to prove to 

 you has been done in the horse family. If 

 all this can be done in the horse family, it 

 can just as easily be done in the human, if 

 thinking people will give heed. 



If this can be done, let us start to do it 

 now — right now, not wait another day or 

 hour. 



If what I say in this book will only in- 

 duce a few thinking men to discuss these 

 matters with those with whom they come 

 in contact I shall feel that the spare hours 

 of my vacation which I gave to these lines 

 were well spent. 



Lexington, Kentucky, August 15, 1916. 



