118 THE RIGHT TO BE WELL BORN 



The monumental folly of man is to do any- 

 thing which will stop the evolution and turn 

 the stream backward. There is a rather 

 innocent way in which this is being done. 

 Men of talent are marrying women of 

 beauty, wealth, or social position, who lack 

 the one necessary prerequisite for mar- 

 riage. I mean the lack of ability; or, the 

 reverse is all too often true. A woman of 

 brilliancy marries a mediocre man. None 

 of my stallions are ever mated with cold- 

 blooded mares, nor are my mares bred to a 

 "draft stallion." Speed and endurance 

 do not come that way. To get speed and 

 stamina, I must bring them from both sides 

 of the ancestry of my foal. 



For men and women of brain power to 

 marry into families lacking this power 

 would be as foolish as for me to mate 

 "Peter the Great" with a draft mare. I 

 would thus ruin that much of the great 

 stallion's blood. So does a man or woman 

 dilute brain power when it is not matched 

 by a strain of equal worth. So many ex- 

 traneous considerations enter into mar- 

 riage selections, such as beauty, social posi- 



