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nature was multiplied by a miraculous implement, and the 

 irresistible mythical monster, half horse half man, became 

 the symbol of a disenthralled and advancing humanity.* 



The domesticated and educated horse, then, appears a 

 standard achievement, his body a perfect concentration of 

 the powers of the earth. Gentle, docile, and humble as a 

 slave, his muscles have made the desert to blossom ; and the 

 plow stands an everlasting record of man's escape from the 

 horrors of barbarism, and his passage into the enjoyment of 

 the blessings of civilization. 



"As in the art of poetry all arts have been blended, so in 

 the art of war have all sciences and arts. The art of war 

 is the highest and most exalted art ; the art of freedom and 

 right, of the blessed condition of man and of humanity, 

 the Principle of Peace." 



In this art of arts, in the grand achievements of this 

 "Principle of Peace," the horse has been a primary instru- 

 ment, f Gentle and loving as a pet and slave, he becomes 



Apollo, and on the chest of Cypselus." (Pausan, iii. 18.) "Some 

 representations of him are still extant, in which young Achilles, or 

 Erotes, is riding on his back." (Mus. Pio-Clement, i. 52.) 



* Thanks to Ixion and his magnesian mares ; many thanks to the 

 "bull-killers of the mountains and forests of Thessaly;" thanks 

 eternal to the cloud-begotten Centaurus, " hated by gods and men," 

 for " benefactors shall be honored." 



f The worst doom of the horse is not his slaughter on the battle- 

 field. Of the abuse and maltreatment of this invaluable domestic, 

 too much animadversion cannot be expressed ; from his brutal op- 

 pression for money in races against time and distance, his destruc- 

 tion from abuse in the form of the hired hack, or the still more 

 agonizing death by slow oozing of sweat (blood) from the jaded and 

 worn-out body (rather tottering skeleton ! !) of the treadmill omnibus 

 horse. The insane destruction of this noble animal is the vilest form, 

 of lawless annihilation of value, and man, in his selfish perversion 

 of the use, and diabolical abuse of him, is indirectly destroying 

 himself. 



"Diomedes, the son of Ares and Gyrene, was king of the Bistones 

 in Thrace, and was killed by Hercules on account of his mares, 

 which he fed with human flesh." (Apollod. ii. 6, g 8.) The ninth 



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