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wards. If their combats arose from natural 

 ferocity, or natural hatred, they would last all 

 the year round; and this we know is not the 

 case. 



Why do we allow our dogs or deer to live in 

 sociality? merely because they are not of suffi- 

 cient value to induce us to keep them apart. And 

 why do these animals live thus socially, and, on 

 the whole, harmlessly with each other? They 

 have the same brute passions as the horse, and 

 certainly are by no means more kind or generous 

 in their natural dispositions than he is. The 

 reason why they do not attack each other, as our 

 entire horses would, when they meet, is, we en- 

 courage and habituate the one sort of animal to 

 live together in harmony, while we totally pre- 

 vent the other from doing so. 



I have no hesitation in saying, that in doing 

 this we pursue quite a wrong system. Horses are 

 valuable animals, and consequently should be so 

 far securely kept apart as to prevent the chance 

 of their injuring each other; but it certainly 

 would be better for them, and ourselves, if we 

 so habituated them to associate as to do away 

 with the inclination to do the injury to each 

 other. 



I have known men to send a couple of hunters 

 to an inn, in order to meet some distant pack of 

 hounds, and the order given was, " Mind and get 



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