218 FEAR AND LOVE INCOMPATIBLE. 



that, when called upon to perform his destined duties, 

 they shall neither alarm his fears, rouse his anger, nor 

 call forth his powers of resistance, the doing of which 

 in the colt is I am quite certain the cause of our find- 

 ing him in after-life disposed to vice. 



I trust it will be ceded to me, that, although the 

 kind old nurse who has fondled us in our infancy is 

 ever associated in our minds with pleasurable remem- 

 brances and grateful feelings, the schoolmaster is 

 seldom sought for by his pupil in after-life from feelings 

 of regard. The latter may be aware, and of course is, 

 that to the former he owes the knowledge that he finds 

 so useful and necessary ; but the manner in which that 

 knowledge was imparted to the pupil rankles in his 

 mind ; and that being on whom we have ever looked 

 with terror never can, never is, and never will be 

 regarded but with feelings very nearly bordering on 

 hate and a desire of retaliation : and people very much 

 deceive themselves if they consider this feeling con- 

 fined to the human species. 



There is no doubt but that a different kind of in- 

 struction will be required for different horses, varied 

 in accordance with the different description of ser- 

 vitude to which each is likely to be applied; but 

 whether he is to race or draw a cart, the system should 

 be the same in one particular, namely, accustom him 

 from the first to something like the duties that will 

 afterwards be required of him. The horse has no na- 

 tural objection to do any thing that does not hurt him, 

 nor has he any natural objection to letting you do any 

 thing with him that does not hurt him ; it is merely 

 the novelty of what is done for the first time that 

 makes him fear he WILL be hurt. The colt objects to 

 a saddle being put on his back : it is very natural he 



