ABSTRACT
The thesis that dogs are kept because they are useless and expensive we leave to facts--and dog lovers. The author similarly accounts for horse-breeding, but surely the history of agriculture demonstrates the high utility of stock-breeding and the economic motive of breeders. The truth is that things that are rare and of fine workmanship are expensive. They are purchased by the wealthy because they alone can afford to pay for them though all would like to possess them. The waste is incidental; probably there is, proportionally, quite as much outside the leisure class as within it.
