VARIETIES OF CHARACTER 71 



They will set us an example in faithfulness, in 

 self-sacrifice, and every finer trait of character. 



But if we teach a young horse nothing but 

 distrust, making fear and hatred the main 

 traits of his character, it is the last outrage 

 upon common sense to call his honest methods 

 of self-defence by such a name as vice. We 

 have the power to raise up angels or devils, but 

 if we breed a horse to be a devil, we cannot 

 expect the poor beast to behave himself Hke an 

 angel. 



Horses vary in character almost as much as 

 we do, and there are with them as with us a 

 small proportion of born criminals whose 

 warped or stunted brains cannot be trained 

 aright by any means we know. What we do 

 not and can never understand is the mysteri- 

 ous power of saints who charm wild men and 

 beasts to tameness, and of certain horsemen to 

 whom the worst outlaws are perfectly obedient. 



Among ourselves there are certain dreams 

 such as the falling dream, the flying dream, and 

 that of being eaten by wild beasts, which are 

 supposed to be race-memories dating from the 

 time when man was a forest animal like an ape, 

 before the immortal Spirit entered into his body* 



Among horses there are race-memories dat- 

 ing from ancient times in the wilderness when 



