Daily Yellowstone journal., 1886-11-12
THE MATING OF HUMAN CT


Not Matter Beyond tue Science 81 -.
Food for serloas .loJsaL
II has been lately said thai tar H.tinz
of human beings is a matter bey"nI &c
science Of man, because "as near ~ mas
be God joins two souls. The railscs oi
selection are unknown, and W. hlvt lit
tie hope Of their discovery. Whatever
breeding TO secure brains has SO far been
had has been complete failure. Now
and then there has been line Of smart
men-often family of smart people
but we believe the union of poet with a
Philistine is more apt to produce re-
markable issue than the union OF two
poets" Does it not seem to be almost
blasphemous to charge upon God the re-
Sponsibility for the marriages of money,
Of greed for rank. and of course OF anti
NAL passion, of the evil effects OF which
the divorce courts and the scandal col
umns of the press are SO constantly full!
Is it not true that every person OF clear
brain can tell what were the causes that
led to his or her choice of life partner
What intelligent person will admit in
this day that he or she was led by fancy
alone, or by impulse only, and that calm
reason and due regard for the laws,
written or unwritten, had no part in de-
Gliding the question Of mating for life?
Who except the ignorant or the reckless
will confess that, without thought OF
possible consequences, they assumed the
responsibility of creating new ties and
of bringing into the world new beings to
affect its destinyi Is the mating of hu-
man beings beyond the science Of man?
II that were true-if the laws of man do
not exercise an almost irresistible power
over that mating-why do not men Of
high intelligence and irreproachable
character wed women of depraved tastes
or of infamous reputation, yet of beauty
of exterior?
Is there proof that breeding for brain
has been a failure? Can it be shown
that the children of people Of genius
have failed to show like genius because
their parents possessed great talents :
Have not the failures been the result of
other causes not so deeply hidden for
discovery? 1t is truth well known to
breeders that often reversion to an old
type of ancestors will appear to appar-
emily set at naught the best art Of the
breeder. None know better than do
breeders of the highest skill how tedi-
ously long is the task Of firmly fixing
any popularity Of form, or color, or
temperament, or action in animals COM
pletely under control as to mating, and
of short generations. None know bet
ter than they that like will produce
like, Immediately or remotely. and they
are therefore not discouraged by fail
ure, however much they may be dis
appointed. II is scarcely reasonably to
expect to develop and permanently es-
tablish by single effort talent for
any branch of the serious work OF the
world, or q remarkable genius for any
art; but history furnishes evidence
showing that the breeding Of mon with
q steadfast purpose Of developing GER
tain physical or mental traits has been
successful; and also showing that, while
by this means mankind has at times ad-
vanced greatly, he has often slipped
back when he has neglected the observ-
ance of correct principles of breeding.
None will deny that the royal families
Of Europe, the Ptolemies Of Egypt or
the Incas of America possessed marked
genius for ruling. They were bred and,
in many cases, closely inbred for the
strengthening and intensifying Of their
powers Of governing. How great a
measure of success attended the exer-
else of the breeders art in their cases
was shown by the grand works
of Egyptian kings and by the
results of European ruling and indi-
Gated by the magnificent ruins
of Central and South America-struc-
lures that have no equals among the
/ products of the boasted and conceited
civilization of to-day-structures that
we would find difficulty in reproducing
with the aid Of all modern appliances,
which give proof that their builders had
a marvellous ability to govern multitudes
of men in tasks that. with the crude ap-
pliances they used, would be to US i'm
possible, because we lack the power to
manage great masses of men.-E. w.
Perry in Chicago Times.