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horses was never yet equal to the demand. And every 

 one knows that the ability of a horse is the measure of 

 his worth, for a horse that will go a mile in three 

 minutes, is worth more to the physician or business man 

 than one that only goes a mile in ten minutes. And we 

 all like to see smart men and smart horses, for the facul- 

 ties of both were given them for use. And we like to 

 see the horse brought into the fullest exercise by judicious 

 breeding and training, which tests the capability of 

 matter. A greater interest needs to be awakened in the 

 public mind, by diffusing useful knowledge in the way 

 to improve these animals, to have this desideratum 

 accomplished, and which is measurably being done by 

 the encouragement given by our legislatures, the organ- 

 ization of our national fairs, &c. 



There is as much philanthropy in making animal 

 matter subservient to mind, as there is in improving and 

 cultivating the mind itself, as the one helps to accomplish 

 the other. And it always affords pleasure, to see a fast 

 horse and a handsome gait, and one that never refuses to 

 pull, and can back as much as he can draw. 



The best of horses are none too good, for the best of 

 men — neither are perfect yet. 



There is a right and a wrong principle existing which 

 is manifest to every one, and men are influenced more or 

 less by the one or the other; but that the one of doing 

 wrong is necessarily exercised in trading or dealing in 

 horses, any more than in any other commodity, I deny. 

 And that anything which I have said in the foregoing 

 pages, should have a tendency to sap the virtues, or 



