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GENEALOGY OF THE HORSE, ETC. 
toed ancestor, while Darwin, as we all know, has not been success¬ 
ful in finding the missing link showing that man descended from 
the anthropoid race. 
The same writer has the following : The devil is said to 
have appeared to Cuvier and threatened to eat him. “ Horns ? 
Hoofs?” said Cuvier. “ Graminiverous—Can’t eat me.” “All 
flesh is grass,” replied the devil, always ready with that fatal habit 
of misapplying scripture which has always clung to him.—(W. 
K. Clifford in Popular Science Monthly .) 
Now, gentlemen, if you will give me your attention a little 
while longer, I will give a few details which show the esteem in 
which this noble animal was held by our forefathers. 
Buffon says, “ Man, among all animals over which he claims 
lordship, could not have made a greater conquest than by do¬ 
mesticating the horse, this proud and fleet animal, upon which 
nature bestowed its most noble gifts, form, strength, courage, 
fleetness and endurance.” 
Upon discovering the advantage which the horse may render 
man over his opponent, and the more nations considered war, 
migration, and pomp the purpose of their existence, the prime of 
the horse’s life began. 
Facts based upon linguistic researches show that all descen¬ 
dants of the Aryans have the same root for the word “ horse,” 
therefore it is generally accepted as the main proof that the do¬ 
mestication of the horse took place first in Iran, the mother coun¬ 
try of the Aryans, about 3,000 B. C., and from there the domes¬ 
ticated horse spread over the whole of China, India, Mesopota¬ 
mia, Persia, part of Asia Minor and then gradually over the 
whole earth. 
From the moment the horse was used for riding, its importance 
as a domestic animal reached its zenith. Its subjugation forms 
a highly significant epoch in the civilization of the nations. The 
superiority of the horse among other domestic animals is due to 
the fact that it was bred and used for war. 
The invasions of wild cavalry hordes which stirred up whole 
nations, the wars that shook the earth and penetrated the whole 
of Europe, would not have been conceivable without the aid of the 
