196 HOW OBEDIENCE IS TAUGHT 



that they are interested in obeying us because thus 

 they avoid the evil of punishment and receive 

 pleasure. 



In horses the ascendancy of love and fear is 

 limited to the person who lias known how to inspire 

 it, and to those persons who know how to treat 

 them in a suitable manner for maintaining it. With 

 them, as with children, the moral ascendancy can- 

 not be attained or maintained by anyone who does 

 not know the way. Obedience and disobedience in 

 children depends iipon the behaviour of the Master, 

 on his knowing or not knowing how to manage 

 them. 



Necessity that obedience he hy persuasion 

 and hy hahit. 



The horse controls his own movements and in 

 order to render us service, should be left free ; he 

 cannot do anv service when bound and he is ten 

 times stronger than we are. Therefore it is neces- 

 sary that his obedience should be sure and to be 

 sure should be by persuasion, i. e. should be foun- 



