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about ten times as long as the system I advocate, 

 it must, therefore, be more permanent in its influ- 

 ence, I would beg to submit that such a conten- 

 tion would hold good, only, on the untenable suppo- 

 sition that the effects of the respective processes 

 were equal in force. I see no possible benefit, except 

 the very questionable one of giving the animal an 

 exaggerated opinion of his own powers of resis- 

 tance, in taking a month to accomplish what may be 

 quite as efficiently done in an hour ; as, for instance, 

 making a fractious horse steady to mount, or quiet 

 to shoe behind, or a sulky refuser to jump kindly. 

 We must surely admit that the repetition of an 

 effect, and not the time occupied in its production, 

 is the cause of the permanency of its influence. 



The ordinary method of breaking. The usual 

 method of rendering horses docile by early and 

 continued handling, followed by patient and skilful 

 riding, answers fairly well with men who regard 

 breaking as a pleasure, and have plenty of spare 



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