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in the direction desired ; hence every method of repressing 

 by fear, or revealing power by action or voice, etc., may be 

 regarded as the expression of this power, which of course 

 no one denies. But that by will power alone, the character 

 of a horse can be held completely submissive or in a 

 marked trancoydal state, is entirely impossible. 



Having taken lessons in psychology many years ago, I 

 found that I could to a certain extent control the will of 

 others ; yet notwithstanding the greatest effort, I never 

 have been able to control horses without first impressing 

 the nervous system with a sense of physical power. The 

 cases which are most likely to resist such management, are 

 stallions which have grown into viciousness through bad 

 treatment, and mustangs, or those of a fixed, wild nature. 

 The " Wilkins Horse," " Hillman Horse," and Mustang 

 Pony," Cases 6, 7, and 11, Subjection, and the " Hettrick 

 Horse," No. 4, Kicking, are cases in point. As a matter of 

 experiment, while the "Hettrick Horse" was tied to the 

 center pole of the ring, I tried for over an hour to even get 

 near enough to touch his body without being struck or 

 kicked, and if my life depended upon it, T could not safely 

 do it; yet by less than twenty minutes' proper subjective 

 treatment, his submission was made complete. In proof of 

 this, reference could be made if necessary to a great many 

 of like character. 



When a horse is thoroughly vicious and unmanageable, 

 subjecting him quickly to a full course of treatment, sur- 

 prises and breaks up his confidence, on the same principle 

 that the eye disconcerts and controls, with the difference 

 that now it is the result of direct physical control, when 

 by careful management he can be held gentle. But in 

 doing this, as I have repeatedly remarked, it is fatal to 

 success to let the horse see, at any point, that there is not 

 sufficient power to master and control him. Sometimes, 



