GENERAL PRINCIPLES. 



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such means as will give more power of control must be 

 used. Now the point of real interest, and the one to which 



I wish to call special attention in 

 this connection, is that the prin- 

 ciple is precisely the same in ei- 

 ther overcoming or preventing vi- 

 ciousness or bad habits of any 

 character. The only difference is 

 that instead of teaching a trick 

 we now combat the habit or vi- 

 ciousness already formed, simply 

 repeating until there is entire do- 

 cilit}^ 



Fig. 14.— Docile, intelligent. Jf ,^ niau Were strOUg CnOUgh 



to take a fighting "bully" by the shoulder and shake him 

 so thoroughly as to show him he had power to control him 

 as he pleased, and then treat him kindly, it would have a 

 better effect in convincing him of his mastery and make 



him less inclined to 



resist, than if he 

 had controlled him 

 after a desperate 

 struggle of half an 

 hour or more, that 

 would necessarily 

 greatly strain or in- 

 jure him physic- 

 ally. Or if the con- 

 test were carried on 

 in the presence of others, where his pride would be greatly 

 stimulated, or under circumstances that would arouse his 

 bad nature, he would allow himself to be punished most 

 severely before he would submit, 



Fig. 15. — A noted vicious Horse. 



