CHAPTER I. 



THE ORIGIN OF THE HORSE. 



The material used in making a horse consists 

 of grass and water. We cannot make one 

 because we are too ignorant. We know that 

 for such a making wisdom is needed beyond 

 the last conception of our hearts, knowledge 

 far above the scope of our pretentious 

 Httle sciences, power omnipotent. Such 

 attributes of wisdom, knowledge and power 

 are divine. 



The Almighty made the horse out of grass 

 and water. From the generating engine which 

 we call the sun He used certain energies dimly 

 perceived by our science, the chemical, phy- 

 sical, electrical and psychical forces which 

 evolved, moulded and coloured the mechanism 

 of a creature strong, swift, enduring and 

 beautiful, which is inhabited by a pure, 

 courageous, generous spirit hke that of a 



