The relative influence of the sexes considered, in reference to propagation, as well in man as in the lower ranks of animals.

  • Wright, John (d. 1852)
Date:
1842
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Credit: The relative influence of the sexes considered, in reference to propagation, as well in man as in the lower ranks of animals. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    performance in the main. It is a humiliating fact, that notwithstanding the wealth, talent, learning, and extreme facilities enjoyed by the agricultural interest, for the performance of such a task, there is not, at the moment I am writing, a work in the English language, embodying the principles of breeding, in accordance with the present advanced state of science. My inability to profit from sources of this kind, suggested the alternative of a personal intercourse with experienced breeders. The only objection that applied to the scheme, consisted in the interruption my further absence might occasion to the advancement of professional interests. But this consideration lost much of its weight, from a recollection of the fact, that, at no period, had what, in modern parlance, we term a discriminating public, imposed on me an excessive amount of duty; and it was now but too evident that they never would : soon, therefore, I journeyed far and often, _Jn the prosecution of my plan. And not unfre- cpiently did it happen that the privations I endured on such expeditions, were of a character to have discouraged any one less passionately attached to the pursuit. Not to trespass wantonly on the indulgence of my readers, I will adduce one or two instances. In the month of March, 1835, I deter- mined to investigate the claims of the Devonshire