164 THE RIGHT TO BE WELL BORN 



unfit produce the unfit; the men of worth 

 come from parentage of worth. 



Many women claim that if they have 

 had one child, or, at most, two, they have 

 done their duty to uphold the family name. 

 The wise men of India realized that if their 

 Nation were to be great, they must breed 

 only from the strongest, mentally and 

 physically, of its members; and that tne 

 idea handed down for ages that the eldest 

 son shall found the family, was all wrong; 

 so they directed the Brahma Priests 

 to instruct the mothers to throw their first- 

 born into the Ganges, to be eaten by the 

 crocodiles. 



Sir Anthony Mitchell, in the "Edinburgh 

 Medical Journal" of 1886, found that 31 

 per cent, of all the idiots in England were 

 first-bom children. Everyone knows that 

 in breeding a stallion or young mare the' 

 first colts do not generally amount to much. 

 Often, this year, I have had the remark 

 made to me by breeders : 



"Peter Volo" is one of the grandest 

 horses ever produced and he may be the 

 greatest sire in the world, but I do not care 



