and Lords who kept human gamekeepers
Breeding is a fact known equally by aristocrats and their minions, the peasants.
Such is the form: the aristos are the well bred, the peasants, less so. Sometimes there is a reversal of this general state. There are at least two ducal families in England today who have proven the exception to this law, and have sullied their pedigree and need to be broken, (made extinct) remoulded and for it all to begin again.
Mould needs breaking, and resetting
Of course this is par for the course, dynasties must die. The current royal family for example, is teetering badly. The Trojan horse in their DNA is hard to say, there's a lot of it because of the relentless pharaonic inbreeding of all European royalty, their strength always comes from beneath, a 'commoner'(relatively speaking) such as Diana or the Queen Mother, (Bowes-Lyon family) who averted the threat of possible future haemophiliac episodes.
Diana especially, re-established the healthy thoroughbred in contrast to Charles's ailing DNA. The current crown prince bears the stamp of his mother's strength (tall, good frame) and his father's weakness (early balding, buck-toothed).
Maketh Lords in our midst
But the royal problem is a microcosm of all human breeding dilemma's. Pedigree is made by taste, taste is definitively what the philistine lacks, and the barbarian often has.
Having a good quota of both barbarity and pedigree, in the truest sense, is the making of nobility.
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