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with grace and natural ease, as the better- 

 formed horse? In suppling the parts of 

 the animal upon which the rider acts 

 directly, in order to govern and guide him, 

 in accustoming them to yield without diffi- 

 culty or hesitation to the different impres- 

 sions which are communicated to them, I 

 have destroyed their stiffness, and restored 

 the centre of gravity to its true place, name- 

 ly, to the middle of the body. I have, be- 

 sides, settled the greatest difficulty of horse- 

 manship : that of subjecting, before every- 

 thing else, the parts upon which the rider 

 acts directly, in order to prepare for him 

 infallible means of impressing his will upon 

 the horse. 



It is only by destroying the instinctive 



forces, and by suppling the different parts 



of the horse, that we can obtain this. All 



the springs of the animal's body are thus 



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