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forward from the parent stem, until a 

 time comes when we need an outcross, be- 

 cause of too much in-breeding. What is 

 true of the horse is true of the human. 



Some years ago, people with more imag- 

 ination than good common sense went to 

 Arabia to get an Arabian horse to cross 

 back on the English thoroughbred. The re- 

 sult was an absolute failure, because the 

 English thoroughbred, in good breeding, 

 had moved ahead a thousand years. 



In raising trotters, breeding back to 

 mares carrying thoroughbred blood, has 

 given us our greatest and fastest trotters 

 of the day. In the human family, breed- 

 ing back to families who carried the best 

 ancestral blood, has given us the greatest 

 men of the day. 



The family is stronger than thejndivid- 

 ual. That is to say, the handsomest finest 

 looking man of no blood and no ancestry 

 will never sire children equal to even the 

 more ordinary individual of good blood and 

 good ancestry. I once drove forty miles to 

 purchase "Wiggins," a great son of 

 "Aberdeen," as I needed certain of his 



