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Excerpt from Seed Breeding The law of inertia, which is defined as being that condition of matter by which its existing state is retained, if at rest, rest; if in motion, the continuance of that motion until other forces in action shall produce a change, serves as well for the consideration of the problem of life. A perfect likeness be tween parent and offspring would presuppose the parents being from all time in a state of inertia, a supposition which nullifies the proposition, as the act of having offspring would be a departure from that state. Yet when we define the science of breeding, and state that like produces like, we recognize the fallacy of the preposition as applied with exactness to individuals, and modify it immediately by limi tations, which if they serve to weaken the statement, yet serve to make it not contradictory to our experience. Rather the law of variation should be the key-word for breeding; although the proposition that like produces like as a men tal conception is as true and as applicable as is the proposi tion that inertia is a definition of a law of nature. Like does produce like when every condition is removed which would produce difference, which only can be done as a men tal act; a body is considered as continumg in Its present state when every condition involving a change is removed by a mental act. Hence the law of likeness is of the most importance to that breeder who desires to so modify surround ings as to restrain his animals from being improved in their progeny; and the law of variation is deserving of the more attention from that breeder who would desire to improve his animals in their progeny. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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