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ciations of pain or disapproval should follow 



immediately on the action performed and ^ 



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The associations which are given him for the pur- 

 pose of teaching the actions we desire to 

 teach him to perform should be of things 

 that his intelligence can understand, in the 

 way he can understand them, and of things 

 suited to give rise to the ideas of the actions 

 we desire to teach him to perform, to make 

 him understand what we wish him to do. 

 The same associations should always be used 

 to indicate the same actions, and the mo- 

 vements it is desired to teach him should 

 be those which his body can make, and for 

 the making of which it has been prepared » 116 



All that is taught him should be taught a little 

 at a time by gradation and after prepara- 

 tion of his body. These things are also ne- 

 cessary because their absence may cause 

 oppositions and reactions . . . . » 118 



Actions, aids, punishments, and associations which 

 the horse understands naturally, with which 

 may be associated the actions it is desired 

 to teach him to perform, and by which these 

 may be taught him ...... 124 



Thino-s and actions which the horse does not un- 



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derstand naturally, but which he learns im- 

 medhitely by means of associations with the 

 things which he understands, and which it 

 is necessary to teach him, owing to their 

 being a matter of prime necessity with a 

 view to his instruction . . . . » 127 



