THE POWER OF REASON OVER INSTINCT. 



Far greater results can be accomplished by the 

 judicious exercise of uniform kindness than by the 

 coarse and cruel treatment which, in many cases, is 

 only too prevalent at the present day. 



There is one most important fact which should 

 always be carefully remembered, and which should 

 in all circumstances, however harassing, persuade man 

 to act kindly towards the horse, and that is, his 

 infinite superiority over him. 



Man is endowed with the supreme power of reason 

 and intelligence, by which he governs and controls 

 his actions ; whereas, the actions of the horse on the 

 contrary, are only governed by mere brute instinct. 

 This is an arrangement absolutely essential in main- 

 taining the perfect balance of natural law by which 

 animal power is concentrated and utilised for the 

 benefit of mankind and the world in general. Were 

 the lower animal world, like mankind, endowed with 

 the calculating power of reasoning, the whole system 

 of Nature would rapidly become deranged, and exist- 

 ence would become intolerable, if not impossible. 



Animals possessed of great strength and power, 

 like the horse, would throw off their subjection to 

 man, and refuse to be controlled by a creature of his 

 diminutive standard. Can anyone imagine for a 

 moment a beautiful Arab horse of thoroughly pro- 

 portioned symmetry, a highly strung nervous tempera- 

 ment, and the sharp, sensitive instincts peculiar to his 



