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are shockingly out of proportion, and when some are 

 wholly suppressed. 



Darwin says (p. 16, Origin of Species) : 



" Domesticated races * * often differ in an ex- 

 treme degree, in some one part, * * when com- 

 pared with one another." 



(Page 31, Origin of Species): "One of the most 

 remarkable features in our domesticated races, is, that 

 we see, in them, adaptation, not indeed to the animal's 

 or plant's own good, but to man's use or fancy." 



(Page 33, Origin of Species): Darwin quotes Youatt, 

 approvingly, as saying, that man, by Selection, as "with 

 the magician's wand, * * may summon into life, 

 whatever form and mould he pleases." 



Simply varying the relations of the given number 

 of parts belonging to a species, is not developing; 

 and it shall be shown that, when the parts are not 

 of the one, true ratio, there is evil inevitably entailed. 



(Page 33, Origin of Species): Darwin says, that the 

 very distinct varieties, observable under domestication, 

 are " produced by the accumulation in one direction, 

 during successive generations, of differences.'' 



For breeders, and fanciers, to work upon, there are, 

 at the start, under domestication, a certain number of 

 characters in each species. In addition thereto, there 

 are a number of characters, which were lost by a past 

 generation, and which arise under the favorable condi- 

 tions of domestication. From these characters, Man 

 has formed the varieties of each species under domes- 

 tication, by the following processes : 



I. By the retention, of the individuals of a species, 



