158 THE RIGHT TO BE WELL BOEN 



amount of food, care, or education can make 

 the average man eminent. No amount of 

 food, care, education, or anything else you 

 like added, would make a child of Hottentot 

 origin compare in any way with the chil- 

 dren of white men. 



In much less than a century, trotting 

 horse breeders have evolved from horses 

 of slow speed a two-minute trotting horse. 

 Now, the test has been the win-race. It is 

 true, the foundation of the trotting breed 

 is the English thoroughbred horse, which 

 dates back for 200 years in the English 

 Stud Book, with 700 years of actual racing 

 and selected breeding before the time of 

 records. From this horse, bred to run, 

 American trotting-horse breeders built up 

 a breed to trot, axid to trot fast, and to pace 

 and to pace fast. They have done it by 

 mating the winning-mare to the winning 

 stallion, if he had the right ancestry. Ee- 

 lentlessly has the breeder eliminated the 

 unfit. It has been the world's best example 

 of worth mated to worth. The human race 

 can be improved the same way. Eminence 

 mated to eminence, genius plus genius, abil- 



