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improvement of liorses^ raise up horseman- 

 ship from the low state into which it has 

 fallen. The government can undoubtedly 

 do much here ; but it is for the masters of 

 the art to supply, if necessary, what it leaves 

 undone. Let them render attractive, and to 

 the purpose, studies which have hitherto 

 been too monotonous and often barren; let 

 rational and true principles make the 

 scholar see a real progress, and that each of 

 his efforts brings a success with it. We 

 will then soon see young j)ersons of fortune 

 become passionately fond of an exercise, 

 which has been rendered as interesting to 

 them as it is noble; and discover, with their 

 love for horses, a lively solicitude for all 

 that concerns their qualities and education. 

 But horsemen can aim at still more bril- 

 liant results. If they succeed in rendering 

 easy the education of common horses, they 

 will make the study of horsemanship popu- 



