Animals of the Past
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IX THE ANCESTRY OF THE HORSE " Said the little Eohippus I am going to be a horse And on my middle Jinger-nails To run my earthly course. " The American whose ancestors came over in the " Mayflower " has a proper pride in the length of the line of his descent. The English- man whose genealogical tree sprang up at the time of William the Conqueror has, in its eight centuries of growth, still larger occasion for pluming himself on the antiquity of his family. But the pedigree of even the latter is... a thing of yesterday when compared with that of the horse, whose family records, according to Pro- fessor Osborn, reach backward for something like 2, 000, 000 years. And if, as we have been told, " it is a good thing to have ancestors, but sometimes a little hard on the ancestor, " in this 159 160 ANIMALS OF THE PAST instance at least the founders of the family have every reason to regard their descendants with undisguised pride. For the horse family started in life in a small way, and the first of the line, the Hyracotherium, was " a little an- imal no bigger than a fox, and on five * toes he scampered over Tertiary rocks, " in the age called Eocene, because it was the morning of life for the great group of mammals whose cul- minating point was man.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
IX THE ANCESTRY OF THE HORSE " Said the little Eohippus I am going to be a horse And on my middle Jinger-nails To run my earthly course. " The American whose ancestors came over in the " Mayflower " has a proper pride in the length of the line of his descent. The English- man whose genealogical tree sprang up at the time of William the Conqueror has, in its eight centuries of growth, still larger occasion for pluming himself on the antiquity of his family. But the pedigree of even the latter is... a thing of yesterday when compared with that of the horse, whose family records, according to Pro- fessor Osborn, reach backward for something like 2, 000, 000 years. And if, as we have been told, " it is a good thing to have ancestors, but sometimes a little hard on the ancestor, " in this 159 160 ANIMALS OF THE PAST instance at least the founders of the family have every reason to regard their descendants with undisguised pride. For the horse family started in life in a small way, and the first of the line, the Hyracotherium, was " a little an- imal no bigger than a fox, and on five * toes he scampered over Tertiary rocks, " in the age called Eocene, because it was the morning of life for the great group of mammals whose cul- minating point was man.
What to read after Animals of the Past?
You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Frederic a Frederic Augustus Lucas to read onlineMoreLess
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