So much, then, for these particular features of the organic world,
which you can understand and comprehend, so long as you confine
yourself to one sort of living being, and study that only.
But, as you know, horses are not the only living creatures in the
world; and again, horses, like all other animals, have certain
limits--are confined to a certain area on the surface of the earth on
which we live,--and, as that is the simpler matter, I may take that
first. In its wild state, and before the discovery of America, when
the natural state of things was interfered with by the Spaniards, the
Horse was only to be found in parts of the earth which are known to
geographers as the Old World; that is to say, you might meet with
horses in Europe, Asia, or Africa; but there were none in Australia,
and there were none whatsoever in the whole continent of America, from
Labrador down to Cape Horn. This is an empirical fact, and it is what
is called, stated in the way I have given it you, the 'Geographical
Distribution' of the Horse.
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