no BREAKING. 



Reafon and obfcrvation afFord evident d^- 

 monftration that horfes have their different 

 degrees of fagacity and penetration; their fpon- 

 taneous efforts are all regulated by the moft 

 impreffive and inherent fenfations, dependent 

 upon paffigns confpicuous as our own ; fub- 

 jed: to an equal difplay of fortitude, fear, 

 joy, grief, courage, timidity, attachment, and 

 prejudice, as any of the human fpecies ; and 

 this is fo perfedily- known to thofe who have 

 made nature the objcd: of frequent medita- 

 tion, that they cannot conlider the communi- 

 cation a matter of novelty; while thofe who 

 receive the information under an impreffion 

 of doubt, muft, in the moments of reflexion, 

 be ferioufly convinced they have read but lit- 

 tle in the fertile volume of experience. 



Upon the moft palpable convidion that 

 thofe paffions have a predominant afcendancy 

 over their different fubjeds, I prefume to 

 urge the confiftency of rendering the animal 

 obedient to the will, by fuch methods as are 

 calculated more to acquire his fubmiffion than 

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

 complifh the bufinefs more by gentle means 

 than coercive exertions. The neceffxty for 



earneftly 



