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RACE, GENERATION, BREED. Race (see FAMILY). Generation, in Latin generatio, from generare, signifies the thing begotten. Breed signifies that which is bred (see BREED). These terms are all employed in regard to a number of animate objects which have the same origin; the first two are said only of human beings, the latter only of animals: the term race is employed in regard to the dead as well as the living;