SUPPLEMENT, ETC, 



ON THE RELATIONS BETWEEN MAN AND THE DO. 

 MESTIC ANIMALS — ESPECIALLY THE HORSE — AND 

 THE OBLIGATIONS THEY IMPOSE. 



« La connaissance de la conformation exterieure du cheval est beau- 

 coup moins repandu qu'on ne le pense vulgaireraent : elle repose sur dea 

 etudes d' anatomie de physiologie, de mecanique, et d' histoire naturelle 

 dont peu de personnes se font une juste idee." 



If animals were classified by naturalists in the order 

 of their intelligence, docility and usefulness, the Horse 

 and the Dog would occupy, in relation to Man, the jux- 

 taposition they have assigned — on the ground of physical 

 structure — to the impracticable baboon and the grotesque 

 and chattering monkey ; and in lieu of groping in the 

 darkness of antiquity for the period when they are sup- 

 posed to have been entrapped or subdued, by fraud or 

 violence, we should the rather conclude that Nature 

 placed all the domestic animals where we have ever found 

 them — in close association with Man, administering to 

 his pleasures and wants ; lightening his toils and sharing 

 his dangers. , and constantly advancing, like Man him- 

 self, under the improving influence of civilization and the 

 arts that belong to it. 



In contemplating the whole animal kingdom, doesnol 

 Man — standing preeminently at the head of it, surrounded 

 by the domestic races — present everywhere the most 



