THE INTELLIGENT BREED OFFSPRING 31 



colored man knew by instinct that a great 

 ancestor's soul had come back to earth in 

 flesh and blood. 



When you see a man of marked potency, 

 energetic of mind and body and of distin- 

 guished family features, carrying well 

 along in life the high breeding of a dis- 

 tinguished ancestor, you may be reasonably 

 sure that it is a case of atavism, and he is 

 very close to Combination No. I. 



Some people try to raise children; others, 

 who know their business, breed them. 

 They carefully select the cross to mate 

 with what they lack in their own make-up, 

 and to strengthen their own good quali- 

 ties. They know the "Golden Cross" be- 

 cause they have studied the pedigrees of 

 the man or woman to whom they were 

 mated; the good points and the failings 

 of each other's ancestors were well con- 

 sidered. The horse that carries a pedigree 

 finally proves his worth by the perform- 

 ances of his get. Each succeeding cross 

 or breeding or in-breeding increases the 

 speed quality or the intelligence, the stam- 

 ina and value of the offspring, as it moves 



