2 REPLIES TO A SERIES OF QUESTIONS ON BREEDING. 
before the profession, they being applicable to the subject 
of breeding. 
The Prince says : — “ The introduction of science and art, 
as the regulators of productive industry, is destined to play 
a great and important part in the future development of this 
nation, and of the world in general. 
<c Science is eminently practical, and must be so, as she 
sees and knows what she is doing ; while mere common 
practice is condemned to work in the dark, applying natural 
ingenuity to unknown powers to obtain a known result. Far 
be it from me to undervalue the creative powder of genius, or 
to treat shrewd common sense as worthless without know- 
ledge. But nobody will tell me that the same genius would 
not take an incomparably higher flight if supplied with 
all the means which knowledge can impart ; or that common 
sense does not become, in fact, only truly powerful when in 
possession of the materials upon which judgment is to be 
exercised. 
(C In all our operations, whether agricultural or manu- 
facturing, it is not we who operate, but the laws of nature, 
which we have set in operation. It is, then, of the highest 
importance that we should know these laws, in order to 
know what we are about, and the reason why certain things 
are which occur daily under our hands, and what course we 
are to pursue with regard to them. Without such knowledge 
we are condemned to one of three states: — Either we merely 
go on to do things just as our fathers did, and for no better 
reason than because they did them so; or, trusting to some 
personal authority, w 7 e adopt at random the recommendation 
of some specific, in a speculative hope that it may answ er ; 
or, lastly — and this is the most favorable case — we ourselves 
improve upon certain processes; but this can only be the 
result of an experience hardly earned and dearly bought, and 
which, after all, can only embrace a comparatively short 
space of time, and a small number of experiments. From 
none of these causes can we hope for much progress ; for the 
mind, however ingenious, has no materials to work with, and 
remains in presence of phenomena the causes of which are 
hidden from it. But these laws of nature — these Divine 
law 7 s — are capable of being discovered and understood, and of 
being taught, and made our own. This is the task of 
science ; and, while science discovers and teaches these law r s, 
art teaches their application. No pursuit is, therefore, too 
insignificant not to be capable of becoming the subject both 
of a science and an art.’* 
We now 7 proceed to our analysis. 
