CHAPTEE IT. 



THE TREATMENT OF YOUNa HOESES, etc. 



Having tried to show what a stable ought and 

 ought not to be, I will proceed to the manage- 

 ment of the horse in the stable, and hope to be 

 able to show that it is to kindness alone that we 

 must resort to make the horse love, fear, and obey. 

 God in his infinite wisdom has formed the horse 

 so that it can be operated upon by the knowledge 

 of man according to the dictates of his will, and 

 he might well be termed an unconscious, submis- 

 sive servant. This truth we see verified in every 

 day's experience by the abuses practised upon 

 him. That he is so constituted by nature that he 

 will not offer resistance to any demand made of 

 him which he fully comprehends, if it is made in 

 a way consistent with the laws of his nature. 

 The horse, though possessed of some faculties 

 superior to man, being devoid of reasoning 

 powers, has no knowledge of right or wrong, 

 and well it is so ; for if he had sense equal to his 

 strength, he would be useless to man. He would • 

 then demand the green fields for his inheritance, 

 where he could roam at his pleasure, denying the 

 right of servitude at all. To make him fit for 

 the requirements of man, the colt has to be 

 taught, and it is this teaching in its infancy that 



