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will follow that rational progression which 

 tells us to commence with the simple, be 

 fore passing to the complicated. By the 

 preceding exercise, we have made our means 

 of acting upon the horse sure. We must 

 now attend to facilitating his means of ex 

 ecution, by exercising all his forces together. 

 If the animal respond to the aids of the rider 

 by the jaw, the neck, and the haunches ; 

 if he yield, by the general disposition of 

 his body, to the impulses communicated 

 to him, it is by the play of his extremi 

 ties that he executes the movement. The 

 mechanism of these parts ought then to 

 be easy, prompt, and regular; their applica 

 tion, well directed in the different paces, 

 can alone give them such qualities as are 

 indispensable to a good education.* 



* It must not be forgotten that the hand and legs 

 have their vocabulary also; and a very concise one. 



