284 THE CROSSING, 4C, OF PIGS. 



necessary for the support of the rest.' Let any one 

 compare the wild boar with any improved breed, and 

 he will see how effectually the legs have been short- 

 ened." 



Let any one compare, also, the fertility and strength 

 of constitution, of. the wild boar, or of any other pig 

 which runs wild and has its several characters devel- 

 oped by exercise, or by correlation with organs which 

 have been developed by exercise, with the little breeding 

 capacity, and the weakness of any, so-called, improved 

 breed, and he will see how effectually has the improved 

 breed been punished for its departure from the true 

 proportions of the original type. 



Darwin says : 



" Our wonderfully (!) improved Pigs could never 

 have been formed, if they had been forced to search 

 for their own food" (p. 283, Vol. ii, Animals and 

 Plants, &c). 



No ; nor would they be so susceptible to the evil 

 effects, which have been brought upon them, through 

 outraging the proportion which is so necessary to 

 physiological integrity. Had they been suffered to 

 search for their own food, their legs would have grown*' 

 to a size, proportionate to that of their body ; and their 

 hair, bristles, tail, head, tusks, and snout, would also 

 have been adequately developed, through correlation 

 with the legs. 



But, as Darwin says (p. 492, Vol. ii): 



" Man does not regard modifications in the more 

 important organs * * as long as they are compati- 

 ble with life. What does the breeder care about any 

 slight change in the molar teeth of Pigs * * ?" 



