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because he has not the reasoning faculties of man to 

 argue the justice of the thing demanded of him. If he 

 had, taking into consideration his superior strength, he 

 would be useless to man as a servant. Give him mind 

 in proportion to his strength, and he will demand of us 

 the green. fields for his inheritance, where he will roam 

 at leisure, denying the right of servitude at all. God has 

 wisely formed his nature so that it can be operated upon 

 by the knowledge of man according to the dictates of his 

 will ; and he might well be termed an unconscious, sub- 

 missive servant. This truth we can see verified in every 

 day's experience by the abuses practised upon him. Any- 

 one who chooses to be so cruel can mount the noble 

 steed and run him till he drops with fatigue, or, as is 

 often the case with the more spirited, falls dead beneath 

 his rider. If he had the power to reason, would he not 

 rear and pitch his rider, rather than suffer him to run 

 him to death ? Or would he condescend to carry at all 

 the vain impostor, who, with but equal intellect, was 

 trying to impose on his equal rights and equally inde- 

 pendent spirit? But, happily for us, he has no con- 

 sciousness of imposition, no thought of disobedience 

 except by impulse caused by the violation of the law of 

 his nature. Consequently, when disobedient, it is the 

 fault of man. 



Then, we can but come to the conclusion that, if a 

 horse is not taken in a way at variance with the laws of 

 his nature, he will do anything that he fully compre- 

 hends, without making any offer of resistance. 



Second The fact of the horse being unconscious of 

 the amount of his strength can be proven to the satisfac- 

 tion of any one. For instance, such remarks as these 

 are common, and perhaps familiar to your recollection. 

 One person says to another, " If that wild horse there 



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