192 THE FORMATION OP VARIETIES. 



be greatly reduced or wholly suppressed, represented 

 by mere rudiments, or having not a vestige left. The 

 capacity for reversion, in the parts not valued, is not 

 encouraged, but, rather, suppressed, by every possible 

 means. 



" No one supposes," says Darwin (p. 48, Origin of 

 Species), " that all the individuals of the same species, 

 are cast in the same actual mould." 



No one supposes that they are actually cast in the 

 same mould ; but, he who would understand the de- 

 velopments, arising under domestication, must hold 

 that there is but one, normal mould for all the 

 individuals of the same species, and that all of the 

 varieties and races, under domestication, and under 

 nature, are but various modifications of such original, 

 true mould. All of the individuals of a species, are, 

 originally, from the same mould. The mould, how- 

 ever, has been bent and distorted (by the adverse 

 conditions of nature, and by man's misguided policy of 

 selection), into every conceivable, diminished shape, 

 and size. Those individuals only, which answer, in 

 their structure, to the true mould of their species, are 

 physiologically perfect. The true, normal mould is 

 capable of covering all the positive differences of the 

 varieties, and of the individuals of the same species. 

 Given, the modification which, in any individual, the 

 true mould of its species has undergone ; and, the evil 

 effects which constitute the penalty for such departure 

 from such mould, will be observed to be in proportion. 

 In proportion also, as the individuals return to the size, 

 and shape of the original mould, will the evil, attendant 



