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worse on that account. This | con
ceive to be the first great law of breed
ing, modified by many circumstance:
hereafter to be attended to; but it i:
the key to the door Of the arcana, II
the deep, deep darkness Of whose
depths the great word lies hidden, ane
until that key be found, we may no
dream even of cropping for the secret.
To illustrate the above theory, the
historical pictures of Napoleon, nj:
wife and son, may be taken. On ex
amining them we are forcibly struck
with this law of resemblance. The
forehead of the naalss parent is well
represented in the offspring, that being
in the sire very positive; but the thick
lip of the Austrian mother outlived the
chiseled lip of the Italian, as may be
seen in the lower portion of the face
This fact also illustrates another modi.
fication OF the law of resemblances
afterwards to be referred to, namely,
that faults of excess are difficult to be
remedied in breeding, and are only to
be accomplished by over-breeding OF
enveloping in larger model. The
same law exists in regard to the repro
duction of the mental qualities, though
there is much difficulty in determining
exactly what mental qualities are trans
missibIe to the offspring, and what are
not To me it appears that all mechan-
ical powers are transmissible, such as
drawing and the mechanical parts of
music; but the highest attributes of
genius, such as sang
'Lady love and war,
Romance and knightly worth ~
such as
Heard voice cry, Sleep no more.
Macbeth does murder sleeppn
are not transmissible-the capacity of
painting the lily and gliding refined
gold dies with the possessor.
This fact shows also, in my opinion,
that those capacities are acquired and
not inherited The capacity of ac-
quiring is of course natural, but the
thing acquired is only obtained by
deep meditation and intimate converse
with the works of those who have pre-
ceded him. "To make a great gen.
eral.n said Bonaparte, "one must study
deeply the campaigns of the great
masters Of the art of war" This was
he avowal of one who seemed to be
great general by intuition, and shows
hat he himself acquired it but by
study. Nothing" says Moore, "that
IS worthy of endurance is ever accom-
plished but by the severest labor"
The theory of Mr.. Walker, as before
quoted, is that one parent gives the
7itaI system, and the other the loco
motive. Now to any one conversant
With the fitness of things in the econ
,my of nature, with the admirable
with which the one part is
adapted to the other, ii is plain that
nature scarcely ever will permit the
rital system of a sickly and inert
emale to control the locomotive capa-
,ity of healthy and vigorous male
This does take place at times, but the
.nimal so constituted is abnormal and
always looked upon as al anomaly.
The theory of Mr.. Walker also leaves
Is without any means of accounting for
! fact well known to breeders, namely,
hat many of the finest specimens of
he human, as well as animal race,
rave been produced from females de-
icient in form: yigor and beauty. The
emale has neither a fine vital nor
locomotive system, yet her progeny has
both. Whence do they come? Most
from the male, for the female
had them not. Now apply TO this case
he theory just advanced, and the
problem il Immediately solved: the
positive qualities of the male outliyed
he negative qualities of the female,
and in fact the very softness of the
metal enabled him the more easily 10
stamp an image of himself. This fact
$ illustrated by the pedigree of the
horse Wagner. His dam
vas shapeless pacing mare, and yet
Produced one of the finest finished and
most indomitable of race horses The
ather of the Duke of Wellington and
he Marquis of Wellesley was almost
IN imbecile, physically and mentally;
,ut the positive qualities of the mother
we're represented in the offspring, send
ng forth two such men as England has
eldom looked upon.
The above theory of breeding | con-
'eive TO be the first great law, but
modified by the following circum-
tanees especially, and some that are
more obscure and imperceptible =
When each parent is of different