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the voice of experience, instead of kicking against it as 

 we are inclined to do, and hence the necessity of forming 

 right associations in their minds : these associations 

 should be contiguous, the first impression should 

 suggest the second : a horse cannot see resemhlances 

 and form a conclusion. 



Mind wandering is caused by not concentrating the 

 ears and their records on what the eyes are looking at, 

 and other suggestions are allowed to come forward than 

 those connected with the object of observation ; e.g., one 

 should see and hear a name or word : if when a horse is 

 looking with doubt at anything the rider speaks sooth- 

 ingly to him, he will make pleasing associations with the 

 object and consequently will not fear it. The mind 

 should make the best of the present and not worry about 

 the past or the future. There is in every mind a calm 

 still centre and the aim should be to find it in the horse's 

 mind as well as in one's own. 



