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movement of either mind or matter, and that this law 

 governs every action or movement of the animal king- 

 dom. Then, according to this theory, there must be 

 some cause before fear can exist ; and if fear exists from 

 the effect of imagination, and not from the infliction of 

 real pain, it can be removed by complying with those 

 laws of nature by which the horse examines an object, 

 and determines upon its innocence or harm. 



A log or stump by the road-side may be, in the ima- 

 gination of the horse, some great beast about to pounce 

 upon him ; but after you take him up to it, and let him 

 stand by it a little while, and touch it with his nose, and 

 go through his process of examination, he will not care 

 anything more about it. And the same principle and 

 process will have the same effect with any other object, 

 however frightful in appearance, in which there is no 

 harm. Take a boy that has been frightened by a false 

 face, or any other object that he could not comprehend 

 at once ; but let him take that face or object in his 

 hands and examine it, and he will not care anything 

 more about it. This is a demonstration of the same 

 principle. 



With this introduction to the principles of my theory, 

 I shall next attempt to teach you how to put it into prac- 

 tice ; and whatever instructions may follow, you can rely 

 on as having been proven practically by my own experi- 

 ments. And knowing, from experience, just what ob- 

 stacles I have met with in handling bad horses, I shall 

 try to anticipate them for you, and assist you in sur- 

 mounting them, by commencing with the first steps to 

 be taken with the colt, and accompanying you through 

 the whole task of breaking. 



These three principles have been enlarged upon and 

 explained in a fuller and more familiar manner by Mr. 



