. Domesticated animals, their relation to man and to his advancement in civilization;. Domestic animals. THE HORSE /o it is instructive to compare the military strength of a countr)- like China, where the horse is not a common element in the life of the people, with that of any of the western folk who may hereafter have to wrestle with that populous empire. Some writers, in their efforts to forecast the large politics of the future, have imagined that when the hardy and obedient Chinaman came to receive the European training in the mili-. Pluugh Hiirsub, Fr tary art, the armies of that country
. Domesticated animals, their relation to man and to his advancement in civilization;. Domestic animals. THE HORSE /o it is instructive to compare the military strength of a countr)- like China, where the horse is not a common element in the life of the people, with that of any of the western folk who may hereafter have to wrestle with that populous empire. Some writers, in their efforts to forecast the large politics of the future, have imagined that when the hardy and obedient Chinaman came to receive the European training in the mili-. Pluugh Hiirsub, Fr tary art, the armies of that country might prove from their numbers a menace to our own civilization. Such an issue seems in a high degree improbable, for the reason that the eastern realm could not provide the horses which would be necessary for the use of invading armies; nor is it at all likely that the rigid framework of their society will ever be so altered as to provide an abundance of these animals. Although in the first instance the horse served mainly, if. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Shaler, Nathaniel Southgate, 1841-1906. New York, C. Scribner's Sons
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