PRELIMINARY REMARKS. 19 



to manage and control the locomotive, we must have an artificial 

 motive power, while the horse has been supplied by nature with 

 motive power. In order to make a horse start, stop, turn to the 

 right or left, in fact to go where and when we want him to, 

 we must understand how to control him. 



We put the bridle on, with the bit in his mouth, take hold of the 

 lines, pulling to the right or left, according to the way we want 

 him to go. And when the horse is trained and educated properly, 

 he will obey every command, and he has not the intelligence to 

 resist our control. 



The horse is eight times stronger than man, and had he the 

 intelligence to resist our commands, we could do nothing with 

 him. 



In order for man to be ab le to manage a locomotive, he must 

 be educated and taught how it should be done properly, and in 

 accordance with the structure and purposes for which the machine 

 was constructed. He must know how and when to start, stop, 

 slacken or increase the speed ; when to feed it with fuel and water, 

 and how much to give, otherwise serious results may follow. 



The same remark will apply to the intelligent handling of the 

 horse. To fully control his every movement, and guide his foot- 

 steps, the man must first be taught the best methods of getting 

 control of the animal — to learn his weak or strong points, that he 

 may take advantage of them to impress certain things or acts on 

 the horse's mind. He must learn the cause and effect of every 

 movement of the horse, and the most likely impressions caused by 

 certain methods of training. 



The locomotive engineer thoroughly understands every part of 

 his engine and the relation of each part to the others, and the 

 effect of any effort on his part to guide and control it. So must 

 the man be educated to understand the horse's natural laws that 

 govern him, and devise means and adopt plans to overcome him 

 and make him what he was intended to be — man's humble and 



