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they wish. In every such contest success improves 

 and educates his manners, and brings him more 

 completely under control; whereas, failure not 

 only confirms him in the bad habits it is sought 

 to correct, but renders him more wilful, and less 

 obedient in all respects, from the moment of his 

 conquest. It must be borne in mind — and herein 

 lies the secret of man's control over the horse — 

 that he has no developed reasoning power. He 

 is not capable of "sitting in judgment ^^ on the 

 actions of his jnaster; and cannot, therefore, be 

 influenced in his conduct by any consideration of 

 the justice of the treatment he receives. It is a 

 common saying that he does not know his strength; 

 for, if he did, he would not be the wiUing slave of 

 man; which is only another way of expressing 

 the truth that mind rules the world. I have said 



that the horse, owing to the complexity and per- 



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