St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1882-03-04
THE ST. LANDRY DEMOCRAT
BREEDING.

Blood" from the CapltOllan- AdvOcate
We did not see the Picayune article al
luded to. There is a perfect cores
pondence between the breeding of
brute animals and the breeding of hui:
man animals, to limited extent; but
for certain reasons the breeding of hu-
man beings cannot be controlled with
the same certainty Of effect as that OF
brutes. Man, with experience and
Judgment, will cause the best specimens
of horses, cattle, dogs, hogs, ETC., to
mate; and by destroying or not breed
ing from the inferior progeney, he will
finally bring any particular breed to
perfection. He breeds for a perfect
animal physically and for as much
animal intelligence as can possibly be
obtained. He can control absolutely
this kind of breeding, and he can de-
stroy the fruit of his mistakes and
correct his errors. He has no question
of morality to deal with in the breed
ing of beasts.
But the breeding of human beings is
very complex, and much more difficult.
Here we have mans free will and
moral agency to deal with. A brute is
always right or correct, from instinct;
man is nearly always wrong, though
he has reason and moral sense to direct
him. Those who make a speciality of
breeding beasts, have many specimens
of many breeds to select from, and
also knowledge of the performances
of the ancestors Of each specimen for
many generations back. 1t is such
knowledge, and the judicious use of it
in breeding, that has given us the fine
breeds Of horses, cattle, sheep, hogs,
dogs, etc., that, though well known, are
comparatively scarce. The breeding Of
human beings is at random, controlled
by chance or secret providence.
Every man has to be his own breeder,
and if he makes a mistake he cannot
correct it-he cannot lawfully destroy
his OWE offspring; and it requires a
lifetime to make one step in human
breeding. A man often influenced by
external beauty or love Of riches, mar
ries woman whose only recommends
tion is in good looks or her possessions;
and as a consequence his offspring is
badly bred. Children sometimes other
wise good, are corrupted by indulgence,
by the use of too much money, acquire
moral and physical taints, and conse-
quently become bad specimens to breed
from. Everybody is badly bred In
some respects; perfection in human
breeding is no more possible, as things
now exist on earth, than is the perfec-
ton Of human reason and justice. If
some invisible and all-wise angel
would visit the earth every year, and
pass over the best bred specimens of
infant humanity, and destroy all who
had any faint in mind, soul, or body,
there would soon be human perfection
on earth. The only danger would be
from determination in the angels first
round.
All are descended from Adam and
Noah, and therefore should have equal
claims, as far as "the pride Of blood"
is,concerned but if, according to OAR
wins theory, these illustrious ancestors
of ours were themselves descended
from long-tailed monkies, we should
not be boastful-to the monkies belongs
the credit Of being the authors of the
human race. As to the way it was
done, they, the monkies, have tradi-
ton that two of them, wishing to be
sigular, and unlike the rest of their
tribe, being animated by that same
vanity which prevails SO extensively
among their human descendants to-
day, bit off their tails, close up, and bit
off the tails of their children and Of
their children's children, in like man
ner, and made their children intermar-
ry with each other, and commanded
that this biting off Of tails and inter-
should be kept up among
them for all time, even as circumcision
is among the Jews. After few gene
rations there was no longer any necessi-
ty for biting off the tails, for, on the
principle that like produces, like the
young ones got to being born without
tails. There was steady improve
ment in this new race for long time,
for tails were not only bitten off, but
The young ones that were defective in
size, strength and health, were bitten
TO death, and only the best specimens
we're kept to breed from. The long
jailed monkies were however the more
numerous. and this excited the jealousy |
IF the no. tails, who, not satisfied with