Note 1085 — Chapter X · THE CULT OF THE HORSE
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J. Cossar Ewart, in Ency. of Agriculture, ed. by C. E. Green and C. Young, 1908, II. p. 427. W. Watts, Geology for Beginners, 2nd edition, 1907, p. 300. H. A. Nicholson, Manual of Palaeontology, 1889, II. pp. 1360-3, claims Phenacodus, a fossil animal from the lowest Eocene of North America, as representing the five-toed ancestor of the horse. On the general question of ancestry, see p. 411 n. infra. An acute criticism of the modern theory is offered in J. Gerard’s The Old Riddle and the Newest Answer, 5th edition, 1908, pp. 93-106.