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with grace and natural ease, as the better- 

 formed horse? In supplmg the parts of 

 the animal upon which the rider acts 

 directly, in order to govern and guide him, 

 in accustoming them to yield without diffi- 

 culty or hesitation to the different impres- 

 sions which are communicated to them, I 

 have destroyed their stiffness, and restored 

 the centre of gravity to its true place, name- 

 ly, to the middle of the body. I have, be- 

 sides, settled the greatest difficulty of horse- 

 manship : that of subjecting, before every- 

 thing else, the parts upon which the rider 

 acts directly, in order to prepare for him 

 infallible means of impressing his will upon 

 the horse. 



It is only by destroying the instinctive 

 forces, and by supj)ling the different parts 

 of the horse, that we can obtain this. All 

 the springs of the animal's body are thus 



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