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^ftime, patience, and danger, that horses 

 the most perverse, obstinate, and refractory, 

 are to be subdued and rendered completely 

 tractable, with much more certainty, huma- 

 nity, propriety, and expedition, than by those 

 unjustifiable acts of violence so repeatedly 

 mentioned and accurately explained. 



Convinced of this fact by the most atten- 

 tive observation, my mind is too scrupulously 

 formed to admit of an alteration in opinion : 

 and I cannot indulge the least doubt but the 

 subject will undergo in future a nicer de- 

 cision, by those gentlemen w^hose opportu- 

 nities have not been sufficiently numerous 

 to ascertain the effect of the different mode 

 of treatment, upon different subjects to ^ 

 critical degree of distinction ; venturing also 

 an additional belief, in which I flatter myself 

 most observers will coincide, that horses 

 originally restive or addicted to suddeii starts 

 ing, are continually habituated in their vices 

 by repeated ill-usage of servants, and the 

 perpetual transfer from one owner to an- 

 other, under all the disadvantage, prejudice, 

 and resentment inflicted upon a bad ?iame, 

 without the lucky chance of once falling 



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