64 Horse and Man. 



this important question to be answered by the 

 event. You can, if you will use the necessary 

 means, gradually familiarize yourself with the 

 action of an unruly horse, until you are quite 

 secure upon the back of the great majority. 

 But your training for this purpose must be 

 moral, not physical. You already know how 

 to communicate your wishes to your horse, 

 and how to sit upon his back while he obeys 

 them. You must now learn how to make 

 him obey them, and how to sit upon his back 

 while he is attempting to disobey them. The 

 skill which you have already acquired will be 

 amply sufficient to effect this, provided you 

 can secure your command of it by one im- 

 portant acquisition. That acquisition is the 

 quality which we term Nerve. 



By Nerve is understood the faculty of not 

 overrating danger. It is therefore a quality 

 quite distinct from courage, which is the 

 faculty of disregarding danger. The courage 

 which enables us to face real danger can only 

 be supplied, when it is naturally absent, by a 

 strong will or a high sense of duty. But the 

 nerve which enables us not to shrink from 

 imaginary danger will come of itself, so soon 



