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system : and I would acquire credit by gene- 

 rously giving him away, to increase the valuable 

 kennels of your gentlemen, " whose breed never 

 wants breaking in ; take it all of themselves ; 

 but you must never use a whip ; O no, Sir ! 

 they are too high bred to bear it." When I 

 have been obliged to hear this, I own I have 

 smiled at the different notions of the sublima- 

 tion of breed. As soon should I think of 

 making a general officer out of some snivelling 

 booby, who, for every rap on the knuckles to 

 awaken attention, will creep away to blubber 

 and suck his thumbs in a corner. No delicacy 

 of nose can compensate the manifold mortifi- 

 cations a man must undergo, in waiting and 

 watching the whimsies of some trifling, shiver- 

 ing, whimpering, indecisive, half-witted animal 

 of this class. I would not squander my patience 

 on such materials. But I am wandering, and 

 must return to you. Our immediate business 

 then, under the supposition that you may partly 

 need it, is to create, or to increase, an endurance 

 of discipline. Now it is impossible this can 

 otherwise be done than by cultivating a fami- 

 liarity with it ; and it is thus that the half-licked 

 things of the nursery get hardened into men. 

 The presence of the whip therefore is indispen- 

 sable; but its use requires judgment : on every 

 occasion of any very marked error, it should be 



