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as luxury has introduced thefe refinements, nature, 

 in order to keep pace with them, has introduced 

 numerous difeafes, unknown in a flate of nature : and 

 as animals, thus artificially treated, have a conftant 

 tendency to fall into difeafe, it is our duty to counter- 

 aft it as much as lies in our power. 



We confine horfes and dogs not only to have them 

 at our immediate call, but to bring them into par- 

 ticular ftates, which are artificial. 



The wind, durability, and emulation of the race 

 horfe is increafed by artificial means: the fame art 

 is requifite to form the manage horfe's cadences, 

 which could not be retained, was he permitted con- 

 ftantly to run at grafs. The fpeed, docility, and 

 fcent of the fporting dog is, in a great meafure, ac- 

 quired by his education and conflant practice. 



Nature is always equal to her wants, but is never 

 lavifii of her gifts. Horfes in a flate of nature are 

 ftrong and active ; they can fight when neceffary, or 

 they can fly fwiftly from their enemies; but the 

 profoundefl; philofopher, and the fl:rongeft advocate 

 for nature, would confefs that no Arabian, browzing 

 on the fimple herbage of the field, would be equal to 

 the continued exertions of Eclipfe : therefore, if we 

 expe6b peculiar and unnatural exertions, we muft 

 alfo give unnatural powers ; and this we do by our 

 grooming and high feeding: but as this is a devia- 

 tion from Nature, fo flie always puniflies it with a 



