PREFACE. IX 



in spirit. Bearing in mind by whose ordinization all facta 

 originate; remembering how life in this world is linked by 

 bonds more difficult to trace than a positive sameness; and 

 admitting that the One Parent had a design in every part 

 of the many forms which He called into existence, — human 

 ignorance must be wrong when it refuses to acknowledge 

 an identity thus plainly emphasized. 



That the workings of mortal conception are peculiarly 

 eccentric, or at all events that candid appreciation has not 

 embraced the helpmate of man on earth, is established by 

 every rule of right being perverted when the horse appears 

 upon the scene. The spirit of perversion seems so power- 

 ful it involves even the people who act with the animal. 

 When Mr. Rarey came to England, he was hailed as a 

 wonder. Mr. Rarey is now aw^y from these shores, and 

 the persons who formerly acknowledged his genius now 

 speak of the system which he publicly demonstrated, as a 

 flagrant imposture ! 



Why is this? What causes such contradictory opinions? 

 His present defamers declare Mr. Rarey to be a humbug, 

 because horses, when returned to the former grooms and 

 subjected to the former treatment, resume the former 

 habits. Like causes in other spheres are admitted to pro- 

 duce like results. The animal merely responds to the con- 

 duct of those who surround it. Mr. Rarey tames by the 

 exhibition of kindness. He convinces dumb intelligence 

 how futile is resistance, and makes apparent the groundless- 

 ness of fear. It is not the spirit which he subdues, but it 

 is the confidence which he gains. All his acts are dictated 

 by a desire to banish distrust. The animal having learned 

 its lesson is restored to its proprietor. But if the owner 



