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42 know that our doors are securely bolted, that there is strength in our good right arm, that our brains are neither muddled nor weak, and that the will to maintain the right and to secure to posterity the full heritage which has been given through the blood shed by our sires is clear, determined, and purposeful, to the end that this Nation shall forever endure.

Emerson said that “the true test of its civilization is the kind of a man a country turns out.” What the efficiency and righteousness of our breed has established let the breed maintain!