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quite certain that they are not sufficiently developed 

 to enable him to institute comparisons and draw 

 conclusions, in the regions of moral conduct. 

 Hence he will respond to the most unjust and 

 brutal demands, as long as his strength lasts. 



There is a wide-spread notion that man's 

 control over the horse is due to the magnifying 

 power of the eye of the latter, through which he 

 sees men in gigantic proportions. This is a fallacy; 

 for even granting that his eye does magnify objects, 

 so that they appear larger to him than they do to 

 us, all objects, himself included, will retain their 

 relative natural proportions; and, consequently, 

 the apparent size of man will not appal him, since 

 his own size will appear to him relatively so much 

 larger. Man, therefore, must appear to the horse 

 as he really is, very much smaller and weaker. 



