12 Our Noblest Friend, The Horse 



This extreme sagacity has been denied him by 

 nature, and, through its absence, we are enabled to 

 hoodwink him as to our intentions, our means of 

 restraint (so totally inadequate did he but realise 

 it), etc., and to compel him to render to us a service 

 which (as cannot too often be repeated) he does 

 not " deligJit to render," as sentimentalists and 

 theorists would have the world believe. Any labour 

 that is performed for mankind by the horse is 

 done solely and simply because he has been 

 educated through constant and exhaustive rehearsal 

 to yield obedience to our demands, and because his 

 attempts at resistance have been, from the very be- 

 ginning, regularly and completely brought to nought. 

 Man has so invariably proved the master in every 

 argument, the victor in every dispute, that his sov- 

 ereign rule is conceded — and once this idea is firmly 

 implanted in the animal's mind, all revolt is ended ; 

 he yields to his handler any performance within his 

 powers — not glorying in duty done, but refraining 

 from fruitless rebellion. 



This statement is so absolutelv true that it is 



