"They were fed and cared for alike, with no gain from running." "It was artificial selection," they said.

"You picked out the speediest for your training." "Not at all," said he.

"I took always any healthy pair from the trained parents and from the untrained ones--quite late in life, you understand, as guinea-pigs go." Anyhow, there were the pigs; and he took little specialized piglets scarce weaned, and pitted them against piglets of the untrained lot--and they outran them in a race for "Mama." Wherefore Mr.Ross Warden found himself famous of a sudden; and all over the scientific world the Wiesmanian controversy raged anew.

He was invited to deliver a lecture before some most learned societies abroad, and in several important centers at home, and went, rejoicing.
Diantha was glad for him from the bottom of her heart, and proud of him through and through.

She thoroughly appreciated his sturdy opposition to such a weight of authority; his long patience, his careful, steady work.
She was left in full swing with her big business, busy and successful, honored and liked by all the town--practically--and quite independent of the small fraction which still disapproved.