IV PREFACE. 



What we want is to bring the horse up to his utmost capabilities 

 by the cheapest, most natural and inartificial means that we are capable 

 of arriving at. In time the things of eaith fade and decay, and they 

 may as well be worn out as to rust out. 



The artificial life that the domesticated horse is compelled to lead, 

 subjects him to various diseases that he would not be liable to in a 

 wild or natural state; and the only remuneration he asks at our 

 hands for his services (and which is our duty to reciprocate), is to 

 make up to him what he lost by his subjugation to man. 



" With a very beneficial result, the rod has been banished from our 

 public schools, the cat-o'-nine tails from our army and navy, flagella- 

 tion and chains from our lunatic asylums." Hence we see the bene- 

 fit to be derived from extending the law of kindness to our animals 

 as well as to one another. And I should be right glad to see it tried 

 (as it never has been yet), on a grand scale which must result in 

 universal satisfaction to man as well as the horse. 



My friend has written the biography, and I have consented to its 

 publication, further I have not a word to say; it speaks for itself. 



The words to be found in the preceding note are all proper and use- 

 ful terms to the scholar who has been fortunate enough to be able to 

 understand their meaning, but they are a dead language to all others, 

 who, I think, will agree with me in saying that the true philosophy 

 of practice is founded upon the laws of nature, and the theory of 

 disease upon the principles that those laws teach us, and then our 

 materia medica will be the boundless forest. 



