GENEALOGY OF THE HORSE, ETC. 
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need no longer fear aggression, either from without or within, and 
may contemn all the agents of quackery and deception, if not 
absolutely, at least to such an extent as to render their labors too 
unprofitable and dangerous to encourage them in the prosecution 
of their nefarious occupation. 
ORIGINAL ARTICLES. 
GENEALOGY OF THE HORSE, AND ITS IMPORTANCE TO THE 
HUMAN RACE. 
A Paper read before the Deutscher Literarischer Club, Cincinnati, October 
3rd,- 1888, by J. C. Meyer, Sr.* 
Gentlemen :—The history of the horse is best known of all 
domestic animals, and is closely associated with that of 
man. 
The horse and the ass have been the object of the most un¬ 
remitting attention by man from the beginning of human civiliza¬ 
tion ; that poets, philosophers, statesmen, historians, rural-econo¬ 
mists, warriors, hunters, speculators, physiologists, and veterina¬ 
rians have all objects where the horse at least, forms a conspicuous 
element; that from the inspired poetry of the Book of Job, from 
the times of Homer, Aristotle, Xenophon, Herodotus, Virgil, 
Varro, Columella, Gesner, Aldrovandus, Johnston, Buffon, 
Linnaeus, Pennant, Pallas, Gmelin to Saint Hillaire, Cuvier, Bell 
and a host of others ancient and modern, facts and observations 
have been accumulating, researches pursued and descriptions pro¬ 
duced, where we trace patient investigation and often eloquent 
description. 
From the earliest period to the present time, the horse has 
been and still is the ruling factor in war, and at all times was the 
dearest object of the warrior, at whose hands it received the 
kindest treatment. 
♦Literature. —The Horse, Hamilton Smith; Zahnnung und Abstammung 
des Pferdes, Branski; Yortraege ueber Pferdekunde, Adam; Exterieur des 
Pferdes', Hoffman; Das Pferd, Loeffler. 
