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Credit: The human harvest / by David Starr Jordan. Source: Wellcome Collection.
![Human Harvest [i8] history of the steed is an elongation of the history of those who are chosen for parent- age. And with the best of the best chosen for parentage, the best of the best appears in the progeny. The horse-harvest is good in each generation. As the seed we sow, so shall we reap. And this story is true, known to thousands of men. And it will be true again just as often as men may try to carry it into experi- ment. Andit will betrue not of horses alone, for the four fates which guide and guard life have no partiality for horses, but work just as persistently for cattle or sheep, or plums or roses, or calla or cactus, as they do for horses or for men. From the very begin- ning of life they have wrought untiringly — and in your life and in mine — in the grass of the field, the trees of the forest— in bird and beast, everywhere we find the traces of their energy. And this brings me to my second story, which is not true as history, but only in its way as parable, forever trying to become true.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28076850_0022.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
