176 METHOD OF HORSEMANSHIP. 



leged organization start with the desired 

 foot, and in making them change feet 

 finally, at a fixed point, the difficulty then 

 was to prevent them from always repeating 

 this movement at the same place. 



Thus it is that the most palpable errors 

 gain credit, and often are perpetuated, until 

 there comes a practical mind, gifted with 

 some amount of common sense, who contra- 

 dicts by practice all the learned theories of 

 its predecessors. They try hard at first to 

 deny the knowledge of the innovator; but 

 the masses, who instinctively know the truth, 

 and judge from what they see, soon range 

 themselves on his side, turn their backs 

 upon his detractors, and leave them to their 

 solitude and vain pretensions. 



To the mass of horsemen I address my- 

 self, when I say, either the horse is under 

 the influence of your forces, and entirely 

 submissive to your power, or you are 



