236 FEAR 



should not be allowed to run because lie would 

 grow still more afraid and would acquire the bad 

 habit of starting off running at every noise or 

 object which inspires him with fear. 



He is more afraid alone than in company. If 

 when afraid he is alone and does not hear the 

 voice of the man to which he is accustomed, he 

 becomes still more terrified and takes still more 

 headlong flight. A near object causes much more 

 fear than a distant one. Therefore to accustom him 

 not to be afraid of an object we should first make 

 him pass it at a distance and then by degrees 

 make him pass closer, A loud noise causes mucli 

 more fear than a slight noise. Therefore we should 

 make him hear it at first at a distance and then 

 nearer by degrees. 



Eear always becomes greater on the recurrence 

 of the occasion, on its being caused by the same 

 object. The more often he has occasion to be 

 afraid, the more the susceptibility of the horse 

 increases to take fright at every other object and 

 imagine fresh fears. The more the being afraid is 

 repeated, the stronger the fear becomes and the 



