84 THE HORSE PSYCHIC 



aside my life experience while they crush me 

 with some religious or scientific tenet to which 

 they attach importance. Sometimes this bias 

 has caused total blindness, more often the}^ 

 lack sympathy ; but any horse can teach 

 fellows who have eyes to see with, and hearts 

 to understand. Then they will realise in him 

 a personaUty hke that of a human child. 



I do believe that there are men and horses 

 in whom the spirit burns with so mighty and 

 secure a strength that it cannot be quenched 

 by death ; and that there are others in whom 

 the flame burns low or has been blown out. 



Everybody has acquaintances who possess a 

 certain sense, not yet quite understood, which 

 enables them to read unspoken thoughts ; to 

 see events in the past, the distance, or the 

 future as happening to their friends ; or to be 

 conscious of certain states of the atmosphere 

 produced by strong human emotions ; or to 

 see or hear phenomena which some folk attri- 

 bute to discarnate spirits. Such people are 

 called psychic, and, if they use their powers as 

 a means of earning money, they are defined as 

 frauds. As a blind man does not deny the 

 existence of eyesight, so, if I am not psychic 

 myself, I have no call to decry the honest 

 people who possess this gift. I have heard 



