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able demands, will not the animal experi 

 ence still greater difficulty in executing cer 

 tain movements ? The efforts we make to 

 compel him to submission, being contrary to 

 his nature, will we not find in it an insur 

 mountable obstacle ? He will naturally re 

 sist, and with so much the more advantage, 

 because the bad distribution of his forces 

 will be sufficient to paralyze the efforts of 

 his rider. The resistance then emanates, in 

 this case, from a physical cause : which be 

 comes a moral one from the moment when 

 the struggle going on with the same pro 

 cesses the horse begins of his own accord 

 to combine moans of resisting the torture 

 imposed on him, and when we undertake to 

 force into operation parts which have not 

 previously been suppled. 



When things get into this state, they can 

 only grow worse. The rider, soon disgusted 

 with the impotence of his efforts, will cast 



