110 BREAKING. 



Reason and observation afford evident de^ 

 monstration that horses have their different' 

 degrees of sagacity and penetration ; their 

 spontaneous efforts are all regulated by the 

 most impressive and inherent sensations, de-» 

 pendent upon passions conspicuous as our 

 own; subject to an equal display of fortitude^ 

 fear, joy, grief, courage, timidity, attachment^ 

 and prejudice, as any of the human species; 

 and this is so perfectly known to those who 

 have made nature the object of frequent me- 

 ditation, that they cannot consider the com- 

 munication a matter of novelty ; while those 

 who receive the information under an impres- 

 sion of doubt, must, in the moments of reflec- 

 tion, be seriously convinced they have read 

 but little in the fertile volume of experience. 



Upon the most palpable conviction that 

 those passions havea predominant ascendancy 

 over their different subjects, I presume to 

 urge the consistency of rendering the animal 

 obedient to the will, by sucli methods as are 

 calculated moretoacquirehis'submissionthan 

 excite his anger ; or, in other words, to ac- 

 complish the business more by gentle means 

 than coercive exertions. The necessity for 



