Herds and flocks and horses . so it will go on until suchan advanced, such a high, and such an enlightened education,shall have made the peoples of the earth so fair, so friendly,and so pure of mind, as to render wars unnecessary. This,however, can only come with the slow but sure improvementand refining influence of evolution, and in a day of which themost enlightened, learned, and far seeing, can but imagine. The present generation will see wars and bloodshed such asin all probability have never yet been chronicled, and historianswill write of future divisions of the earth, as geographers wi
Herds and flocks and horses . so it will go on until suchan advanced, such a high, and such an enlightened education,shall have made the peoples of the earth so fair, so friendly,and so pure of mind, as to render wars unnecessary. This,however, can only come with the slow but sure improvementand refining influence of evolution, and in a day of which themost enlightened, learned, and far seeing, can but imagine. The present generation will see wars and bloodshed such asin all probability have never yet been chronicled, and historianswill write of future divisions of the earth, as geographers willdraw maps that will apportion the land to others. Kingdomswill disappear, and republics rise and fall. The day of peaceis not yet, but the hour of war is at hand. Of all the sinews of war, none are more necessary thanhorses, and never in the history of the world have the greatmilitary nations of the earth maintained such enormous stand-ing armies as they are doing today; never in their history 74 Herds and Flocks and Horses. A THOROUGHBRED STALLION SUITABLE TO GET CAVALRY HORSES Herds and Flocks and Horses. 75 were they in such need of horses; and never was the world soincapable of supplying them. With all the demand for heavydraught horses, hunters, hackneys, and polo ponies, it is ques-tionable, whether all these different breeds combined, are sosorely needed as army horses; and with the facilities of climate,range, grass, water, feed, and territory, the United States ofAmerica could supply the Armies of Europe and Japan, aswell as their own, with horses suitable for military purposes,if they would go about it in the right way, and breed the properkind/ Apart from this, after starting upon the right founda-tion in regard to parent stock, they could produce these ani-mals as cheaply as they can breed range ponies, and they w^ouldbe able to sell these horses when four years old, at a hand-some profit; and when a great war actually broke out, thebreeders who had them, would ma
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