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even afterwards we shall hardly be able to 

 spare them from our pleasures. 



In the past, the horses carried our ancestors 

 out of savagery through barbarism into civiliza- 

 tion. They saved us from the barren labour 

 of Chinese, Egyptian and Indian cultivators, 

 and gave us the large opportunities of our 

 country life. Horses and shipping added all 

 the continents to our estate, the conquest of 

 the world to our arms, the glamour of adven- 

 ture to our history. If only we can learn to 

 understand horses with a quicker sympathy, a 

 bolder reasoning, the training which our 

 fathers had as horsemen, will be bettered in the 

 training of our sons. 



