70 METHOD OF HORSEMANSHIP. 



this would be to fall back into the old error, 

 the inefficiency of which we are convinced 

 of. The animal's muscular power is in- 

 finitely superior to ours ; his instinctive 

 forces, moreover, being able to sustain them- 

 selves the one by the others, we will inevi- 

 tably be conquered if we set them in motion 

 all at once. Since the contractions have 

 their seat in separate parts, let us profit by 

 this division to combat them separately, as 

 a skilful general destroys, in detail, forces 

 which, when together, he would be unable 

 to resist. 



For the rest, whatever the age, the dispo- 

 sition, and the structure of my pupil, my 

 course of proceeding at the start will always 

 be the same. The results will only be 

 more or less prompt and easy, according to 

 the degree of perfection in his nature, and 

 the influence of the hand to which he has 

 been previously subjected. The suppling, 



