CONCLUSION. 



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of wisdom laid in the total absence of humanity. The horse, as at pres- 

 ent treated, is the victim of ignorance, and is exposed to every abuse. 

 Nature and her dictates are disregarded. The animal is tortured till it 

 submits to abhorrent brutalities. Its instincts, as a created being, are 

 not respected ; neither are its necessities, as a living creature, ever con- 

 sidered. Its welfare is secondary to the convenience of the master, and 

 its custody is transferred to the unscrupulous cupidity of the servant. 



'^Common sense,^^ however, demands these things should be amended ; 

 and the main purpose with which the foregoing pages were indited was 

 a hope, through a plain statement of facts and an appeal to the reason 

 of the public, of awakening those intrusted with authority over the 

 equine species to the errors attendant upon the present system of 

 Stable Management. 



